A DROP IN THE DRY SEASON retrieves and sifts through hopes, impulses, intuitions, moments, and memories that have been thrown on the junk heap. Inspired by the women of countless generations and cultures, these poems take leftover hard soil, ceramic curios, and the neighbor’s swimming pool and make something new, something whole.The poems wonder about deprivation—sensory and emotional, about the persistence of once-living things, and about the arrogance of assuming that the spirit world doesn’t exist—and the arrogance of assuming that it does.