Today's poem Illinois as Carrie Etter's hometown is broad and dry, as compared with the narrow land and humidity in Japan. The collection The Weather in Normal consists of lyrical verse based on geographic and meteorological characteristics. The book begins with the sonnet 'Night Ode' having each couplet in which the afterglow of her far memory remains. Especially, Chapter II grabs me with poems full of murmurs in the mind suddenly appearing or sometimes disappearing. The poem 'Afterlife' richly uses space that can interrupt metrics and rhyming, also can produce both coherence and incoherence of syntax. With her father's groggy slumber, her haunted memories are emerged, like lost and found. Deeply echoed in my mind. At the same time, although the landscape is completely different, by reading the book, I recall a Japanese painter Shunso Hishida ( 菱田春草 )'s pictures with obscurity ( 朦朧体 ). Eldest by Carrie Etter (from the collection The Weather in Normal