Offertories

This collection of free-verse poetry travels along with the author across her lifetime-from high school through college and graduate school past marriage divorce and the death of a parent deep into raising children always finding a new path of understanding and deeply thinking about the inner and external worlds.<br /><br />There is an element of exclaiming in these offertories an understanding that even imbalance can bring about a new equilibrium in one's life. These poems are declarations of how the author has found truth through observations and language. Starting with the imagery of bridges the poetry moves through the terrain of mythology of landscapes of train rides of seasons of loss of hope and finally of understanding how one comes to see one's life as a series of crossings and intersections.