Janet Dale's debut chapbook 'ghosts passing through' is haunted, yes, by the recursive presence of a speaker's lost beloved, their fate "always to be apart." But more than haunted, these poems are haunting—somehow spare and capacious, ethereal and incisive. Dale deftly merges physics with poetics in this elegant conceit, seeking a language that captures essence, until "not even words remain." \—Julie Marie Wade, author of 'Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing' and 'Skirted'