Happenstance and Miracles by Dawn McDuffie

 

 

In her latest chapbook, Happenstance and Miracles, Dawn McDuffie creates a stunning sequence of poems with a voice that is honest, celebratory, and fearless. Her deft mastery of metaphor and lyricism is woven throughout as she seamlessly constructs a universe that is so expansive, yet carefully alive to every detail, every “second of weightlessness.” Whether she’s describing the emblematic button, giving the reader wise directives, or startling us with simple brilliance, McDuffie evokes quiet grace. With a “darker voice tethered by gravity,” these poems become paradoxically luminous as they navigate the depths of the human heart.