Word Songs

She walked beneath the moon into welcoming water sank into darkness hair swirling like sensuous seaweed surfaced and rested on water. Maureen Parker opens up a world of ideas and mystery in her first collection of poetry. Within diverse poems that are part-philosophy part-verse and part-song Parker intertwines vivid images of nature and her surroundings with reflections that find unexpected meaning in life's experiences while inviting others to consider connections between the living and the dead and between humans and the living world. Her poetry explores the long-distance relationship between a daughter and her mother an October beach as seagulls screech above and children dip their tiny toes into the waves and a busy woman's reflections as her dog begs for attention and invites her to wonder what it is like to live inside a furry bod