The Mayapple Forest

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Shelve your losses. Taste spoonfuls in remembrance exhorts Kim Ports Parsons in this moving and lyrical first collection </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Mayapple Forest</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. A profound generosity of spirit guides these poems as the poet navigates a landscape of both loss and abundance. The old homestead the mother's presence the lost child and lost self are set against an enduring natural plenty: of gardens the gathering of food and the sweetness of cooking with family. Sometimes shadows are raised sometimes pain suggested-the mayapple's dangerous delicious lure-but always the work transcends to a deepening mindfulness and an authentic acceptance of the world as it actually is. May we all learn from these beautifully compassionate and discerning poems.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>     -</span><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Janet MacFadyen</span></p>