Frances of the Wider Fields

Frances of the Wider Field is about mothers daughters time mortality-the loss of memory and meaning. Van Prooyens poems have clarity and ferocity a wild imaginative grace that captures the joy and strangeness of our most intimate and familiar experiences. Frances appears part god part curious child part the small solitary voice inside. Van Prooyen asks Is a sigh a word? Is a body a word? / Is a tongue the beginning? She tells us Memory cannot undo the future. Frances if I said /tonight I thank the seven sisters its really / the blue dust of God between them. Or you.