Our Earthly Rhythms

Our Earthly Rhythms is a volume of poetry that explores the four seasons of life and nature both physically and metaphorically. The story begins in the fall with "A Civilization of Fire," a shape poem which sounds like the fire it's describing when read aloud, and ends in the summer with "Our Earthly Rhythms" a short-but-sweet conclusion that may leave the reader with the impression that the story is ever and ongoing. Written over the course of an eleven year period, each poem has its own unique voice, style, and rhythm. Its main theme appears to be an acknowledgement of an infinite passage of time which courses through the book as though it were as commonplace to talk about as the weather. But there is also a love story that threads the piece - a story of love found and lost and then found again. And also a story of faith found and lost and then found again. In "Emergence," the author states that "The repeating four seasons of life take root in a short spring of becoming and are succeeded by an emergence into a world of contrasting qualities of dark and light" and concludes that "The sun is close but will move away again - the season's will repeat again and again - everything will change and return and change and return again and again..."