Pastoral Suite

<p><br></p><p>the poems in <em>Pastoral Suite</em> welcome those <em>in-between hours</em> when we turn off the voices of radios and reconnect with <em>a few solitary clouds</em>. A master of suspended time Muro removes us from a busy world and leads us into an abundant life thick with details of <em>wind-shorn nests of lichen</em> and <em>leaves that hung like paper/lanterns</em> or<em> flecks of gold disgorged downstream over moss-softened stone. Pastoral Suite</em> is a beautiful meditation that locates the sacred in the natural world and in the present creating a splendor that reminds us how nature heals and how poetry can take us from a place of chaos into a world of calm. </p>