Love Letters
By Susan Windle
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Loving letters, loving words, loving worlds and lines of poetry, loving earth and earthlings; eyes open, ears open, mind open and precise -- .... How could any reader help but love you back?
--Rabbi Arthur Waskow, co-author of The Tent of Abraham.
Susan Windle
Susan Windle, founder of the ensemble Voices of a Different Dream, is a performing poet. She has presented her poetry in many settings, for audiences ranging from the very young to the very old. She is co-author of Already Near You: Poetry in Concert with poet Ellen Ford Mason and co-creator of two recordings: Unimagined Possibilities and You Know My Name. An avid collaborator, Susan has worked with visual artists as well as other poets and musicians to create a lively and unusual blending of artistic voices. www.susanwindle.com
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Love Letters - Susan Windle
Copyright © 2007 by Susan Windle.
Cover art by Alana Lea.
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Contents
My Poetics
Here
Messengers
Jahrzeit
Walking Lessons
Holes
Listening in the Dark
Song of the Stone
Malkuta
Home Extensions
Oriole
In the Nest
Phlox
This Day
Spring Prayer
Oh Nancy, Your Self Portrait…
In the Garden State
Joy
The Point
Ocean’s Psalm
Provincetown Harbor,
October Light
Morning Glory Minyan
Letter from a Gentile
Sh’ma
Meeting
Conversation
Reading the Letter Pei
(A Prayer, After Harsh Words)
L’shua (My Salvation)
Paphiopedilum
This Thing We Do
Rambling Toward Ripeness
(Picking for Pie)
The Call of the Cattleya Orchid
Moral Values
The Hearing
Firepower
How Some People Move
Treasure from a Looted Land
A Word
Pleiades
Sleepers Awake
Letters in the Night
(A Villanelle)
Aleph
Reflections from the Bridge
About the Cover Artist
Poem Prints and other Collaborations
Acknowledgments
So many of these poems have their origin in holy conversation with Rabbi Phyllis Berman that I must give her the first thanks: for listening impeccably and conversing deliciously with me over these past two years. I am grateful to our mutual teacher Rabbi Shefa Gold and to the Kol Zimra community for infusing my life with song and weaving with me a fine basket of love and support. Continuing gratitude also to my teacher,