It's This

<p><em>It's This</em> contemplates relationships identity love loss and radical transformation finding acceptance joy and growing peace as the speaker practices meditation and falls more deeply in love with her wife.</p><p>Employing spare musical language and humor and suffused with light these vivid poems flash back to the speaker's past as they practice empathy and compassion in the present - for self and others across political aisles and species. Learning to accept mortality in losing loved ones and chaplaining hospice patients she increasingly appreciates what presence has to teach in the woods of nature and relationships: everything we seek is already in us in each shining moment we allow ourselves to focus wholly on everything present the hologram of <em>this</em> which is the universe this field of snow where I sit alone/on a hilltop until I think of nothing / but light - light on snow light/prisming ice light on light on light.</p>