A Long Wide Stretch of Calm

The poems in A Long Wide Stretch of Calm are an invitation to slow down to rest deep into quiet and the contemplative. Melanie Greens poetry explores the connection with the numinous--as well as speaking to the difficulty of living with a chronic illness.Haiku-like in their intensity of language Zen-like in their meditative quality these lyrical poems invite us to pause catch our breaths and marvel at a poet who invites us to Feel/ the psalm/ of lingering/ calm/ in afternoons/ echo of light. --Carolyn Martin author of The Way a Woman Knows and A Penchant for MasqueradesA Long Wide Stretch of Calm is a wise generous expertly crafted volume of poems that reminds us how even in the deep/ arabesque/ of night in the bearable/ dark we might yet walk/ out of the house of worry into a place where solitude is cherished and heaven is within. --Tim Applegate author of Blueprints and At the End of Day