Semiautomatic

Semiautomatic by Evie Shockley
Shockley presents us with a fascinating collection of poems that seem alomst playful in their form while almost weaponized in their content.
In the poem "Keep an Eye on" Shockley starts with anger almost bubbling over. She plays with form as the content homes in on a variety of targets like the coke brothers and sprawl mart

michael brown's body has a hole in it(                   )
michael brown's murder has a hole in it(               )
michael brown's news coverage has a hole in it(   )

And in "A Dark Scrawl" we see the pointed anger in almost playful verse:
war can't amass a brass tack. war's
all bad acts and lack, scandal
     
         and graft. watch flags clash and tanks
attack camps. arms crack-- rat-a-tat-tat!-- and ban calm. cabals

     plan vast land grabs and trash far-

away clans shacks, pads, plants, halls



An interesting, excellent collection.