River Wedding is a beautiful collection of 74 poems (counting the End Note) that takes us through the pots and pans bustling in the kitchens, the birds hushing among “the limbs of painted trees”, the shadows of college lovers moving with the sun, a strange man disappearing into the buses, an old teacher pockmarked with time, an actor turning into a butterfly in the night’s silence—a miscellany of all that is transient.