Night Drive and Other PoemsMary Clarks poetry explores, with apparent objectivity and occasional humor, the lives of others as well as the one within. With a deft control of language, she might take the reader through a childs early steps and those of an old man, to the cold beauty of nature, and the receding waves that follow a cars plummet off a cliff. She masters variations of subject and mood subtly and with great range; there is light verse, what might be called a