You Are Meant to Be Like Fire

by Sheila Murray-Nellis

Overview

These poems explore how we communicate or fail to communicate with each other, with the natural world, and ultimately with the Divine. Poems of longing, of delight, and of loss reflect on how our relationship with nature mirrors our connection or lack of connection with God.

"'When the Wheel Turns' explores a useful balance between the abstruse and the concrete by moving from gestures of philosophy and revolutionary context to more immediate and 'down to earth' references . . . the puss of war to the peels of beets, the torn planet a sheet of paper, and so forth. This is a very successful and accessible poem." (Fred Wah in his judge's comments on the poem "When the Wheel Turns," the first prize winner in the Kootenay Literary Competition in 2012.)

Print book is 102 pages.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940154991466
Publisher:	Eva Nova Press
Publication date:	10/17/2017
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	290 KB

Table of Contents

Slicing Silence, Ripples, There's a Purple About November, Lumberjack Transformed, On a Crisp Morning, The Sun, a Grape, Moose Chase in Fog, How St. Francis Sings, Lamb, Blue Night, Summer, The Distant Wind, To You Who Lives There Now, The Long Longing, What's Beneath The Surface, Beach In December, American Tourist, Just Beyond, Musings by a Vermont Pond, Tangled, Veneer, Warming, Swollen Desire, This Long Longing, Between, Icicles, Amaryllis, Mother Sea, Crossing the Lake, The Taste of the Wind, Wandering Through the Light Cast, Deer's Cloven Prints, December 20th, 2010, The Moon Wouldn't Let the Sky Be Dark, Crossing the Lake at Night, A Different Kind of Knowledge, Invisible Highway, The Hidden Cave, On Theophany Eve, Waters, In My Boat, When I Lingered in the Garden, While Alone, Thoughts Escape, Crows, To Know Evil Is to Know the Distance, Cougar, Fry Creek, Ideas, Drink, Rebar in Babel, At the Burgess Shale, Struggle: A Jacob's Ladder, Rhythm, When the Wheel Turns, You Are Meant to Be Like Fire, To a Glacier