"The bears want not / the honey, but the bees. Carry a swarm / in your pocket to feed the beasts you meet." Sweet is a gravity-clutched leap into personal emergency and the turbulent landscape surrounding ambivalence, including what lives in that landscape—invited or not. Dani Couture's second collection of poetry takes the traveller from the emerald ash-borer infested trees of Essex County, Ontario, to the frozen lakes of Alaska and to points in-between. Dogged by tree-snapping winds, garbage-hungry bears, global uncertainty and war movie prophecy, the heart bends toward greater and deeper persistence through the intimate and at times anxious metre of Couture's new poems. "Couture’s . . . poems are precise, taut with meaning, and quietly filled with curiosities of fact and phrase . . ." - Books in Canada