The Bay By David Dodd Lee

The Bay

By David Dodd Lee

David Dodd Lee’s new poetry collection The Bay is a “a hymn made out of spider webs.” Lee creates a pulsing lyrical narrative of our nature, a fragile but enduring ecosystem—animal, bird, fish, and human.

“Personally” writes Lee, “I’m happy to live beside fish, inside this day that is divided/by birds.” Lee sees life and death through a lens known only to those who wholly appreciate the wild and what it offers. He writes with admiration. He writes with awe. He writes with knowing. Perhaps most importantly, he writes with connection.

Nature and Humanity, he seems to express, are inextricable. We are part of the wild from which we so desperately try to separate ourselves. “I have a maple leaf inside this bible,” he writes. “One autumn it turned yellow, and it is still yellow/and flat and delicate as a piece of paper with a love letter written on it.” We save what we can. We record what we can. While disappearance is inevitable, reading The Bay is like listening to a heartbeat for a while, our life’s rhythm. “The heart is just/a muscle,” Lee says. “Please Let’s watch the end together.”

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