Eclectic, energetic, exuberant are only a few words to describe this set of delicious images Brenda Sieczkowski parades before us. First, we have mashup of balloons: from those of lumber Macy's Day to the use of "meat balloons" in French cuisine. "The Great Plains Alchemy of Weather" draws from the Mid-West, where the earthiness of farmland meets the synthesis of the artificial. “Sieczkowski's poems are funny and dangerous, prophetic and whipsmart—asking us what we owe each other, what we believe in, what we can know of the selves and worlds that tumbleweed onto our psyches or trail after us like flotsam.” — Donna de la Perrière