Hatch Reflection

Hatch Reflection, a book of poems Objects: A Leafy Sea Dragon, sea turtles, a humpback whale, Hawaiian reef fishes. Mayflies, damselflies, blue Alpine butterflies. Bats, shorebirds, white-tailed kites, and of course hermit thrushes. An adopted wild pig, children, fathers. Mothering. Hawaiian volcanoes, forest, ocean, rain, and night skies. Cascades forest fires and falling trees, WWII and other world crises.Subjects: Lacan, Aquinas, Buber, Eliade, Melville, Stiglitz. References: Includes a Notes section to clarify allusions or references which aren't developed in the text, and is really just intended for readers who might want to have them identified or elaborated. These readers will also probably recognize the little phrases and allusions here and there from Homer, Donne, Dante, Virgil, Shakespeare, Keats, Hopkins, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Bishop, Thomas, Snyder, Sontag and other modern poets and writers even though they aren't referenced. Text: Our interest awakens when something approaches us, comes to meet us in nature, in wilderness, ocean, farmland, city parks, backyards. Nature so often rivets our attention and calls us up sharply to pay closer heed to some issue that has lingered just beneath the threshold of conscious awareness. As with people, the natural objects in our lives are not inert, but have a dynamic presence which draws us in various ways into relation with our reality, forming a continuous silent dialogue. In nature we find ourselves pondering phrases and images until they carry us beyond the limits of our memory; this imaginative widening and deepening of attention allows the new reality to enter through sensations and images, through sights, sounds, smells, and touch held in the body's memory, perhaps screening some secret absence. The author…