Where All Things Meet, Mirror & Mingle: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781945099403)

Where All Things Meet, Mirror and Mingle, Catherine Lawton's third volume of poems, touches on themes of togetherness, nature, faith, and love.

This collection of 67 new poems written from 2019 to 2025, doesn't shy from questions and challenges of these days, but keeps bringing us back to renewed hope, wonder, and courage. In cadence, imagery, and tone these poems (some playful and provocative, and some prayerful and meditative) will touch the reader with authenticity and warmth.

One poem asks, "Why this sense of separateness?" with "Shadows looming ... fog caressing land..." Then we are reminded of "the Light that is, " "a luminous chorus of forever becoming," and "the soul-caressing, all-encompassing song of love."

Then:

May we-this late winter-awakento things forgotten since the dayswhen the Singing, still listened for, was known in the body of snowas well as in the blood of rose.

... Then ...

May memories live of galaxies singing masseseagles riding sunbeams, sweet rain on clean grasses....May we seek obscured paths, find a way to fellowship, community. How can we, those blurred, be humanity?

Color photos and original art add to the beauty of this collection. Included at the back are 12 pages of notes that shed light on the context in which each poem came to be.