Medicine Cache Under Lichen

<p>In <strong><em>Medicine Cache Under Lichen</em></strong> author Bill Prindle chronicles his journey to fine wholeness and grace in a broken world and invites the reader to deepen their own quest for healing and meaning in a time of unraveling. Reading this book can be a form of soul retrieval in a time when we have donated our dopamine to our phones and lost our center in the din of our consumer culture. This book engages the natural and human worlds in a spiral dance of mutual yearning in which there is a place <em>to change your dread/to compassion</em> and which holds hope enough to <em>bring that fluttering spirit back to life.</em> The book explores trails in which it is not too late <em>to find/the path of restoration/together before nightfall.</em> It delves into the complexities of these two worlds from the lichen's symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae to new ways of connecting the two worlds: <em>If this earth is my hospice nurse/ then as I breathe I will be hers.</em> The poems embrace the delight and the mystery of language through encounters with bison and moss loons and larvae moving among them in search of the place <em>where a song once gave rise to a river.</em> It envisions a destination that resembles a <em>place of reunion that was prepared for me all these years.</em></p>