Using art, ritual, poetry and meditation, the author offers a step-by-step guide to developing a personal, intimate relationship with spirit. Based on images of twenty-six goddesses, gods, saints and shamans, the book explores the profound spiritual connections between human seeking and ecological health. The author shares personal experiences of guidance, offers specific suggestions for spiritual practice and practical action, and invites the reader to a life of ordinary miracles.

A willow grove by a creek in Northern California inspired these 32 poems, written in 25 poetic forms, including villanelle, sestina, sonnet, limerick, ballad, and ottava rima. Illustrated with 19 line drawings by the author, this book explores deep kinship among animals, plants, and spirits. Its simplicity and details will delight naturalists, while its depth of mystery will satisfy deep ecologists. The author's reverence for non-human consciousness will inspire everyone who longs for personal and planetary healing.

Is this new collection of poems pessimisstic, or chocolatey? Darkness can be evil, mysterious, unconscious, fertile, soothing, karmically tangled, or simply beyond human comprehension. Destructive romance, familial cruelty, ecological mayhem, and sudden grief are aspects of darkness we prefer to avoid. Lush eroticism, interspecies love, deep imagination, and multi-generational healing are aspects we invite. These 72 poems explore frightening and delightful aspects of darkness, with honesty, ingenuity, and craft. Many are written in free verse, while others probe with the precision of...