Hannah's Song

The poems in "Hannah’s Song" are expressing a woman’s love for and unification with the divine. She desires the divine, and it desires her. As in the "Song of Solomon" in "The Old Testament" and as described by Christian mystics like St. Teresa of Ávila the woman in the poems experiences this merging with the divine as deeply erotic. Through its fire and explosions as well as its beauty and soft, delicate gentleness she is transformed. In the end she can carry forward the many roses she has been so gracefully given and share them with the world.