Author page: Gwendolyn Morgan

  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,…

SONY DSC                                                    In Memory of Abbey Skye                              …

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…

SONY DSCO 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…