Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s new poetry collection, Night Owl , extends her project of meditating on the remarkable facets of nature. Over four sections (“crepuscule,” “sunset,” “midnight,” “the darkest hour is just before the dawn”), she employs a range of forms to attend to these topics, including nocturnes (of course), abecedarians, zuihitsus, and concrete/collage poems in a series of shapes. In one concrete piece that coils like a spiral, Nezhukumatathil writes, “The Greek goddess of the night, Nyx, existed long before the Olympians. They say she simply emerged , draped in dark robes, adorned with stars.” Fireflies, male seahorses, dark chocolate, cenotes, hummingbirds, coral, all make appearances—or are recurring characters—in these poems.…