Exquisitely crafted and strangely lyrical in the best way, Eric Roy's All Small Planes navigates attachment and loss in the face of America's opioid crisis via a love poem for Kate, an elegy for Sandor, and poems accompanied by a composite of friends (also known as Small Plane). I am reminded of Amy Long, Larry Levis, and Brigit Pegeen Kelly. Yet Roy also writes a world of his own, aware and weary of his country's maladies while nevertheless remaining "still faithful to a future."
