A collection including a poem about HMNH’s collection of glass flowers alluded to in a recent National Geographic, Doty chronicles the losses of the AIDS epidemic’s early years and his love of Cambridge, Boston, San Francisco. References that caught my interest included a poem from St. Gaudens in Cornish, NH, a mention of Prendergast’s paintings of the Public Garden in Boston, and references to Cavafy’s poetry.  Descriptions of country roads, gardens, antiquing all resonated with Vermont.  Great descriptions of the seasons:  Autumn,” ….all the rich/commingling of leaves hurry downward/into latent shades too subtle/to ever name, colors/ we perhaps can’t register even once,/and they wonder why the poet we’re reading is/so insistent on mortality…”