Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award "The narrative poems of Meteor are both funny and thoughtful, turning ordinary situations on their heads and capturing strange, surprising scenes."--Foreword Clarion Review, Feb. 2019 "...Mayo's best work-perfect words without artifice; characters and situations made permanent; a triumph of language as a natural art ...."-Grace Cavalieri, The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress "C.M. Mayo creates magic, in poems that transform the ordinary into something more marvelous and strange...."-Kim Roberts, author of A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.