Loom : Finishing Line Press : 9781646628223 : 1646628225 : 13 May 2022 : What makes this book most marvelous is not the rich conceit whereby Penelope finally gets in a few words, sharp as that conceit is (and as those words can be); nor is it the savory mouth-music of the language, gorgeous and resonant; nor is it the technical prowess manifest in rhymed couplets, echo verse, abecedarians, sonnets, and sonorous free verse-no, it is rather that this book is wise, and wise about precisely those things that are most important to us: "love, like a school / of fish practicing // their precarious / and fluid union," and time, which allows us "to slowly / weave the hours-a tapestry going nowhere, / except perhaps to inch towards / impertinence, a kind of quiet / resistance," and even the ineffable, which Mary Romero responds to with a single sentence: "And I thought your absence was the mystery." For is not presence the great mystery? Faced with such awe-filled softenings of the heart, reade