The work in “Cemeteries and Galaxies” is long-lined, brooding and sometimes wistful. It tends to stretch over several pages; only one poem here is a single page, and nine reach four or more.

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What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of illustrated poems for kids.