In Jeanie Tomasko’s chapbook Tricks of Light, intangibles like love, longing, and spirituality are borne on the wings of birds and bees and illuminated by “the palest of light / when the nudge from sleep / comes from quiet things, / beckons you outMoreIn Jeanie Tomasko’s chapbook Tricks of Light, intangibles like love, longing, and spirituality are borne on the wings of birds and bees and illuminated by “the palest of light / when the nudge from sleep / comes from quiet things, / beckons you out the door, / down the path, / singing songs you used to know.”The collection is sprinkled with works from Tomasko’s ekphrastic series, which uses plates from Audubon’s Birds of America as inspiration: from “Plate 251 Piping Plover,” “What you need in the end / is simple: the silent sea, a raveled / strand, scrim of sky.” Tomasko’s lines play with light, making it shift and flicker as in “Tricks of Light”: “All fall I watch the leaves / trade their place with light.”