Yearning for Human Touch

Yearning for Human Touch is a collection of poems and stories that explore human touch and intimacy as a healing experience. Mr. McDowell examines the yearning for human relationships and deep connections in response to personal traumas in his life such as a traumatic brain injury bipolar disorder and substance abuse. Emotionally gut-wrenching and haunting the poems and stories emphasize the impact of these experiences on the poet's identity family and spiritual life. The search for intimacy and healing emerges from a deep sense of loneliness grief and alienation. At the same time a theme of human compassion and grace transforms the pain and isolation into hope and reconciliation. In the end God weaves the poet's suffering loneliness and yearning for human touch into a song of love.