Lent Words

<p><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Lent Words</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is a collection of poems both personal and universal. Delving into themes of light and dark grief and gratitude Moore's poems create a space of beauty and welcome. In this her inaugural chapbook she brings readers into a world steeped in nature and contemplation. Moore understands the temporal state of our lives and the language we use to navigate it </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>These words you use / are on borrow.</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>We will /one day give them back / as our tongues turn / to dust and our / lips ash</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. The poems demonstrate that it is through the visible and tactile that we access the invisible and find meaning. </span></p>