The Few Drops Known by F.S. Blake

F.S. Blake says, “beauty is all around, or wherever you look for it” and the subjects in his poems explore the cosmos, economics, and agriculture to fulfill their desire to understand it; while the speaker in Blake’s work “float[s] in the silence known only to angels / Above cell phones and sales reports” to find that our “one dimensional mission” is replaced with “stars we’ll never plot.” His search leaves him and all of us finding amazement in the world that pulls us in every direction toward the splendor of being alive even if we stand in, as the epigraph to the collections states, the “ocean of the unknown.”

–Robert Evory, managing editor of The Poet’s Billow