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.