Daphne Lifts Up

<p><em>Daphne Lifts Up</em> includes poems about nature around us nature within us and relationships with many different people from family to counseling clients to students colleagues at work animals birds and strangers. It addresses birth illness death and resiliency in all these verses.</p><p>The poet studied with Robert Hass Ellen Bass Ada Limon Dorianne Laux Joseph Millar Maria Mazziotti Gillan Frank Gaspar Mark Doty Jane Hirshfield and Mary Oliver. First influences were Robert Frost Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman William Wordsworth and especially John Keats.</p><p></p>