Topaz Creek
All autumn
she walked along the paths
lined with blackberries, bachelor buttons
wild roses...
Gwendolyn Morgan, Snowy Owls, Egrets & Unexpected Graces (Hiraeth Press, 2016), p. 21.
With gratitude to artist Susan Bourdet for her stunning watercolor of "Snow Queen" which graces the book cover.
Snowy Owls, Egrets, and Unexpected…
Angst Gallery Magic of the Animals – paintings by Gwendolyn Morgan
August 5 – 27, 2016
Book Launch event Saturday, August 20 th 7:00 PM
Angst Gallery 1 015 Main Street Vancouver, Washington 98660
With gratitude to Leah Jackson, owner…
Snowy Owls, Egrets and Unexpected Graces is a portal to an interior landscape that mirrors the natural world—the majesty of western red cedar and snowy owls, the murmurations of songbirds and the incantations of astral showers.…
This book invokes hope and gratitude in the midst of sorrow and grief,…
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In Memory of Abbey Skye
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CORVIDAE GRATITUDE
Dear Raven,
This morning, the day after Summer Solstice
you called tok tok tok
as you flew overhead in greeting
black archival wings glossy with violet....
Please see full poem: Gwendolyn Morgan, “Corvidae Gratitude,” Written River: Journal of Eco-Poetics, Hiraeth Press, no. 10 (2016): 72.
Written River Issue…
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Ode to the Barred Owl
Who comes swooping through
our yard
over the brambles, thickets
of indigenous blackberries,
sword ferns, feral zucchini, trillium....
(poem forthcoming in Western Red Cedar)
"don't dim your joy
you might be a distant star
in someone's dark night."
--Elizabeth Cunningham
from So Ecstasy Can Find You
(Hiraeth Press, 2015, p. 47)
http://hiraethpress.com/store/books/so-ecstasy-can-find-you-by-elizabeth-cunningham/
Autumn window no. 3: Vulpes fulva, Key of Bflat
She walks along the edges of music
star-lit before the fog rises from the river
Her black paws are quarter notes
black-tipped tail, white belly diurnal
We…
We welcome the magic and holiness of Summer Solstice!
"Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you.
Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb."
-- from A Tree Full of Angels, Macrina…