The challenges that face the writers are shared by the readers who receive these smallest of poems and attempt to decipher meanings inscribed on “a letter to the ocean.”  Luckily, the reader is guided by the openness and imagination of Jack Galmitz, who shows us how to play the language games of the poets and not foreclose on possibilities like the blind men with the elephant.  The fourteen pieces that make up this collection of views demonstrate the power of allowing perspectival seeing to give us layerings of meaning rather than one singular message.