In TWO MILES WEST, imagination, memory, and dream entwine to create voices that leap metaphysical boundaries. Entsminger asks us to suppose "a time space lattice / imposed by a mind / composing images." In the realm of poetry, where an image in the mind's eye is as alive as a warm body, he explores the nature of knowledge. Endearing characters dance to the beat: Carisha in tawny hay fields, shirtless rain-soaked boys, a wanna-be western outlaw, pelicans disguised as lady's slippers, Bach composing on a supernatural plane, a gangling bald Russian professor, and a three-year-old boy's vision of...