A Dream of Wide Water

What do a love story unfolding and honeybee lore have in common? Cosmology and Humpty Dumpty? Sharon Whitehills full-length collection of poems A Dream of Wide Water finds such surprising connections. We become part of the intimate life of the the poet as she is leaving a bad love affair and on the tentative brink of a new one. These poems carry us through to an autumnal walk through a forest that seems to become a cathedral then to life in a beekeepers orange grove. Yes reader she married him. But thats only the start. Each poem that follows connects in some way to the world of nature: human nature not least of all. Themes emerge in the process: moments that leave their mark on a child the unveiling of an identity our human role the world reflections on human behavior the existence (or not) of God. All find a home in these poems. This poet presents us with what we might call an old-fashioned romantic spirit--yet its one equipped with a sense of humor linked to an ironic eye.