In come see about me, marvin, brian g. gilmore captures everyday wonders like the loneliness interrupted by his mother who arrives to the still-cold Michigan May chill that "crawled up her / spine like snakes scarfing / food." In this collection, Gilmore reveals a people who moved-moved by music, moved by flavors and food, moved by wintery weather, moved from the South, moved through evictions, moved by words written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and read by the speaker and his best friend Ronnie Beavers when they are too young to understand what the words mean. In fact, as Gilmore writes in another poem, "something about men darker than/chunks of coal kicking around a soccer ball w/ not / a care in the world in one of the coldest places is / reassuring". His poems are gray watercolor brushwork of Michigan-this bird in hand. He is a migrant bumping into memory. This poetry draws water from dark soil.– (06/28/2019)