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Out of the shadows, the darkness, and often the injustice, the need to lament and mourn goes hand in hand with the special significance of small moments and ordinary occasions.       So the poems attempt to express the poet’s calling and the value of poetry and creativity as they contemplate moments of loss and joy, both in my own life and in the lives of others near and far. And above all else Wintersong is a book with a longing to keep hope alive.    More than human wisdom,  looking is the poet’s charge:  to mark and mourn  death and loss;  to not let things go by  unnoticed; to respond  to the daily miracles, the music  of wind in the trees,  across stones, in the grass,  the shimmer of the willow –    how I see your face  in the darkness of absence.    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