Bury The Seed

<p><em>Bury the Seed </em>is a book for anyone seeking connection.</p><p>Brooke McNamara’s second publication <em>Bury the Seed</em> is a four-part collection of poetry that invites us to revel in the wonder mystery and elegance of our ordinary brief and beautiful lives. A compilation of treasures for sharing or reading alone these poems serve as both invitation and map calling us to “bury the seed” of our everyday experiences so that we may open to more robust and delighted ways of being in the world. </p><p>Bury the Seed is divided into four parts: <em>Bury Tend Harvest Release.</em> Each speaking to a richness born when we hold our experiences up to the light and allow them to take new shapes to be made anew. Her poems are a study in the familiar offering a lens so we may step back for another look. Brooke weaves words into relatable contemplative lodestars that unfurl showing us where the treasure lay always right under our noses nestled in our longing frustration and surrender. </p><p>These poems acknowledge the sacredness and possibility that linger in our everyday experience persisting in words: <em>shape mother gesture clenched drown nothing.</em> Brooke shows us how a shift in angle stitches <em>cobalt soap</em>and <em>roses</em> into the fabric of memory. <em>Bury the Seed</em> is an answer to our longing for the exquisite. Her words remind us that it is in living where our brave sorrows and simple delights are transformed into the magic each of us seeks.</p>