Published in 2018 by Cherry Grove, currently available at selected bookstores and from the author.
Fred Marchant, author of Said Not Said:
This is a book of wonders and revelations. These come to us via Polly Brown’s devoted attention to the mysteries of the world we live in, the shapes, for example, of shale ancient waters had carved, or the “seed of light” found at the end of a leaf-tip in a summer rain. There are other mysteries too, the way the imagination can embrace the world, and enable us to become for a few moments what we behold. Then there is the mystery of the human heart, how the joys and sorrows of those who have come before us can in fact continue to live on within us. In the final poem, Polly Brown says she is “still learning how to read the world,” but we by contrast feel only gratitude for the grace-filled “readings” her art has given us.
Polly Brown / Poet 