THE HATCH


The-Hatch

by Joe Fletcher

Brooklyn Arts Press
(www.brooklynartspress.com)
2018, 114 pp., $18.00

ISBN 978-1-93676-754-0

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Joe Fletcher is able to paint some macabre portraits of reality. I enjoyed the vignettes more than the poetry in THE HATCH, suffused with recalled early childhood and teenage horrors. THE HATCH also scripts the all-too-familiar later, adult perspectives (or disdain for them) that can be horrible to everyone, at least sometimes.

But I suppose, in the end, they are probably not.

Andrew Andrews Editor/Publisher