"Through textured landscapes and vivid, bittersweet memories, Mary Lou Buschi invites us into a life in which "not everyone wants to be found." These restrained and tender poems which explore grief, family and growing up Catholic in the 1970s also speak to the riddles of life, death and haunting. In a world where "a Cardinal with one wing whispers our names" and where "white clouds, the size of Bowhead whales" loom in our atmosphere, what does it mean to love and to remember? Blue Physics captures the essence of what it means to "open your mouth wide when you bite the sun," to acknowledge the burdens, mysteries and magic all around us as we go on "aiming at some cold invisible moon," and even as we "disappear into a flask of light." Joan Kwon Glass, Author of Night Swim (Diode Editions, 2022) Mary Lou Buschi's collections of poetry are Paddock (LilyPoetry Review Books 2021), Awful Baby, (Red Paint Hill2015), and 3 chapbooks: Ukiyo-e, Tight Wire, and The Spell ofComing (or Going). Mary Lou holds an M.F.A. in poetry fromthe M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College anda Master of Science in Urban Education from Mercy College.Her poems have appeared in many literary journals such asPloughshares, Glacier, FIELD, Willow Springs, Indiana Review, Radar, Tar River, Cream City, Rhino, The Laurel Review, among others. She lives in Nyack, NY and is a full-timespecial education teacher in the Bronx. Her preferred pronounsare she/her. Eileen Cleary (she/her) is the author of Wild Pack of the Living (Nixes Mate, 2024), 2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate, 2021) and Child Ward of the Commonwealth (Main Street Rag Press, 2019), which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. She co-edited the anthology ' Voices Amidst the Virus' which was the featured text at the 2021 MSU Filmetry Festival. Cleary founded and edits the Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books, and curates the Lily Poetry Salon. A multi-pushcart nominee, her work is published widely in journals and anthologies.