Everything Bright Clear and Beautiful

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>On March 20 2020 Rachel Devenish Ford started writing a poem a day and she continued with this practice for an entire year. Her poetry is a gentle response to each day like an answer in a conversation. Each one is a small contained thing translating world events family events or insect life into something a little easier to see to love.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The poems are loose dreamy and tidal. Read sequentially they give a picture of one woman's life during a global pandemic. They read like a landscape rising and falling in words and tone like the ocean like music. They are welcoming and expansive a meal you have been invited to eat.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Devenish Ford's poetry has themes of womanhood life in her home in Thailand prayers and spirituality world events and racial justice motherhood and a strong love of beauty like a thread that moves through her words. These poems will be familiar because of their humanity and their welcome feels like home. </span></p>