Arrow Pointing North [Paperback]

David Dodd Lees speaker responds to his wifes debilitating illness and the threat it poses to their life together by immersing himself in Natures dark order: Late afternoons, in the fall, while the children / Chase each other with their paper horses, / ...the bones of digested songbirds / Thud down / Onto soft green beds, pine needles and moss. His poems combat physical limitations with a heightening of the senses, and the opening of a symbolic realm: That landscape of spectral forms / We glide through, silently, unable to speak...