A Dark Wood

<p>By turns autobiographical lyrical meditative these closely observed fine-tuned poems in A Dark Wood consider the impermanence in our lives and give us an appreciation of those moments when wonder prevails: Imagine catching such light like painting air / or the atmosphere before it shifts... In the collection's title poem A Dark Wood 1946 the speaker recently returned from WWII finds solace in his beloved woods: These deer my brothers and / sisters the mirror of God St. Francis said. These poems try to catch the light of transcendence the joy and sorrow in shared human experience-childhood family marriage nature aging and loss. </p><p></p><p></p>