In prose poems and lineated poems, sonnets and free verse, Kathleen Brewin Lewis writes about the seasons-of the calendar year and of family life. JULY'S THICK KINGDOM moves the reader through snowstorms and thick pollen into summer's bounty and the bittersweet beauty of fall, from her children's childhood to her parents' old age. "The words go on, a braided rope"-in her second chapbook, Lewis means to mark the passage of time.