Occasions
Selected Poems
Published on 25. September 2018
84 pages
978-1-5326-5249-3 (ISBN)
Description
These poems, written for occasions, remind us of those occasions that recur--celebrations, commemorations, rites of passage, and ordinary moments of being that linger in memory as turning points or extraordinary encounters or summonings. Tied as they are to particular times and places, readers will recognize in them echoes of their own beginnings, partings, and moments of awakening.
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Marilyn McEntyre's recent books include Word by Word: A Daily Spiritual Practice; Make a List: How a Simple Practice can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts; and Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Introduction
- I: Occasions of Grace
- Advent on the Central Coast
- River Walk, January 6
- February Again
- For Sarah, at Sixty
- Married Every Day
- Renewal of Vows
- Celebrating in a Dark Season
- Because it's Not Your Birthday
- Renewal and Return
- Crossing Time Zones
- II: What is Lost, What is Found
- A Lesson Before You Leave
- For Lindsey, in Her Last Days
- For Howard, In Memoriam
- Not in Japan: March, 2011
- After the Fire
- Getting Ready to Go
- A Parting Gesture
- At the Memorial Service
- Visiting Hour
- Invitation to the House of Grief
- Remembering Roseanne
- III: Beginnings
- At the Afterwords Café
- Mother of the Bride
- Moving On, Moving In
- Root and Blossom
- Making Your Home Here
- Rooftop Garden: First Season
- How Way Leads on to Way
- What is Taken, What is Given
- IV: Moments of Being
- Appa's Note
- In the Borderlands
- What Martha Knew
- Lear, Again
- Migraine
- From the Pacific Time Zone
- Song of the Turtle Tender
- Working Out the Idea
- A Moment Underground
- Six Women on a West Coast Morning
- Sestina
- Outside, Inside
- Men Who Love Mountains
- Skill Sets
- Diana
- Blooming
- One Bee
- V: Where the Spirit Speaks
- On the Beach
- Labyrinth-Curtis Hollow Farm
- On Campus
- First Light
- Traces
- What We See By
- Where Light Survives
- Invitation
