David Hickey’s sophomore collection of poetry, Open Air Bindery, builds upon the myriad strengths of his first collection to offer a tightly fantastic collection of songs, stories and covenants ranging across everything from art and astronomy to snowflakes and suburbia, each poem a small instance of colliding light, playful and humorous and profound. These poems, like the flakes in Hickey’s poem sequence “Snowflake Photography,” take their “time/ Covering the roadside trees in forms of (their) careful willing … gesturing down to earth, unveiling new shapes/ for all that (they) find/ here in the oldest of botanies.”