Church of the Dandelions

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ours is a church that keeps no scriptures</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brewing pots of bitter tea</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Examining bitterness</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Learning to love it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Church of the Dandelions</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Daniel A. Ortega invites readers into a lush visceral world where the sacred and the everyday collide. With poems that journey from the ripening of mulberries in urban sprawl to the memory of cast iron passed down through generations Ortega's language is grounded in nature and heritage. These poems are at once raw and tender capturing the ache of memory the reverence for small moments and the ever-present pulse of life in all its beauty and decay. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Church of the Dandelions</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> speaks to the cycles of loss and renewal inviting us to slow down to notice and to feel the weight and wonder of being alive.</span></p><p></p>