In Ponds Jane Clark Scharl explores the mysterious relationship between change and repetition: seemingly contradictory these two weave together so tightly in human existence that they cannot be separated. Speaking in a variety of voices--from a young mother mourning her own mother to Penelope wife of Ulysses Persephone and Theoderic the Ostrogoth--Ponds is a polyphonous meditation on loss and gain activity and stillness and the nature of God both hidden and revealed.