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Spring Mills, a small town in rural, central Pennsylvania, becomes in these poems by Mike Schneider a gathering place for four generations of a family over a century of time. Schneider takes readers to where a grandfather recalls using a hand-crank to start his Model T-'shining image of youth & freedom'-and Guernseys in a pasture bellow to be fed. Readers learn how father and son form links in a chain of 'manual transmission, / hands-on sequenced pattern of the letter H,' and the poet’s sonic facility opens our ears to the 'metallic / industrial click / of shifting gears.' With these poems, we also go to where physicists search among what’s 'fizzy out there in the universe'-not only for elusive cosmological 'dark matter' but also to hear our inner voices, human 'dark matter.' In 'Once Upon a Time,' a remarkable marriage of poetry with skilled science writing, the Big Bang is an 'unfolding like a rose in bloom' and 'Love is evolution of the cosmos. What else can we do?'-a thought the poem answers with longing for, perhaps, a simpler time, a Spring Mills of 'Summer evening quietness. A breeze. / The big tree across the street. / Everything made sense.'
