Suddenly, Time was Like the Flowers

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This poetry chapbook, published by Ottawa’s battleaxe press, contains thirteen poems rooted in the living world – inspired by my love of nature and nurtured by memories of those I have loved and lost.

Each poem lingers in that liminal space where landscape and memory meet, inviting the reader to wander, remember and feel.

excerpt from Síocháin Domhain (Deep Peace)

When the forest called to her longing, 
she answered -- for its comfort, not hers.
And after she fell,
the damp grass yielded to her.

Maybe she lay 
     for months or minutes or hours.
Who knows?
Because suddenly,
                time was like the flowers
that flourished between her fingers
and the vines that tangled
   and twined in her hair.

My writing is grounded in the lands of the Anishinaabe (ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ) people and flows with the waters of Sawmill Creek, the Jock River and the Rideau River.  I am grateful to the many plants and winged beings who inspire me, to my four sons and grandson who are everything to me and most of all to my husband and soulmate Richard who loves me unconditionally.