A Green Bough: Poems for Renewal

I write of ladybugs triggerfish and magpies of holy moments in such places as Iona Scotland the Rockies Florida North Carolina and my own household. I consider the loss of Miss Waldrons Red Colobus a warning from Inuit goddess Sedna and wars tragedy in Iraq. My work has roots nourished by growing up with a farming and gardening family in the Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania teaching and learning with my students and colleagues at Eckerd College being a member of the Shalem Society for Contemplative Leadership and participating in Presbyterians for Earth Care and other eco-justice ministries. My poetic quest is to hold in tension the opposites of a celebration of the natural world and in a time of great destruction a call for its repair. I intend to evoke a saving love for the bodymindspirit of this amazing planet that is our home.