Time Capsules

"The agrarian values are not as fugitive as we once assumed--a particular hill or road, a particular flower or animal, sometimes just off the interstate, will embody the evanescence of 'unassuming forms of beauty. 'In a flower’s ‘calm green leaves,’ in a catbird’s ‘elusive, /alluring’ presence, and in scores of manifestations, Kendall Dunkelberg discovers ‘a silver /sanctuary where we can rest.' His time capsulates stave off the heartache of urban modernity by acknowledging that its losses are perverse exaggerations of a more elemental loss at the heart of beauty itself. These poems keep low to the ground. These poems are magnificent. They never lose heart."
—Richard Lyons