-Carolyn Elkins, Poet and Author of Daedalus Rising
In Water Colors, Barb Brooks creates a biome of flora, fauna, grief, and hope. From expansive wind-swept jetties to the intimacy of snake skin draped over a lawnmower, Brooks gently presents the natural world as geographies to both offer up and calm our sorrows. Water Colors is a compact but profound testament to the subtlety of human emotion in a sprawling word; a chapbook that, just like a favorite tree or body of water, you will return to over and over for its comfort and honesty.
-Jerrod Schwarz, Co-Founder and Managing Poetry Editor of Driftwood Press