When Snow Walks In: Poems By

By Christine Candland

When Snow Walks In.
This is Christine Candland’s third book and her first book of poetry.
In her poem, Chasing the Unicorn, she takes the reader on a search through Paris … “Is the Unicorn the dream and the lion the reality or is there much more to it than that?”
Just south of Durango, in Blue Stones … “these stones are unpolished and stitched in harmonious rows by wizards who mix sentimental alchemy and sing the songs I once knew but have since forgotten.”
In Venice Beach she finds a chunk of transparent aquamarine … “Reaching into a basket of shells … reminds me of those sea glass earrings I wear when I think of you, wondering where those pieces began their journey.”
“In Faces … “I never knew how to capture the soft pattern of buttered skin with the ease of a graphite stroke. Never recognized stern profiles resilient to nocturnal lullabies.”
And When Snow Walks In, while seated in a nearby café, Candland reaches for her pen and paints to capture the elusive figure … “Study the porcelain of her face, shade the lips, dark brown hair with streaks of mandarin.” Reminding us that images are all around to be captured through sight and sound and experienced again and again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781663201751

Christine Candland

Christine Candland lives in Los Angeles with her husband Michael. Her first two books Topaz Woman and Pleiades Rising, received awards in the London Book Festival and Eric Hoffer competitions. Her first collection of poems When Snow Walks In, describes the extraordinary amidst everyday scenes in understandable prose and sparkling details (U.S. Review of Books); And in her second collection, Paris Spoken Here, Candland’s poems sing with keen awareness of the gift of the ordinary (Elline Lipkin). Several of her poems have appeared in the California Quarterly and Altadena Poetry Review.

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ISBN: 978-1-6632-0174-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6632-0176-8 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-6632-0175-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020914807

iUniverse rev. date: 10/23/2020

Dedicated to my writer friends

who had the courage to pick up a pencil

and face a blank page in the first place.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Beyond Baroque and the writers in my workshops whose wisdom and talent continue to inspire me.

Annette Robinson

Gedda Ilves

Gail Gauldin Moore

Vickie Riggs

Greg Moore

Sher McKinzi

Clare Chu

Anna Alra DerSarkisian

Alex Frankel

Raven Kras

Suzanne Weisberg

Howard Weisberg

Mark Fulton

Contents

ONE

Growing Too Tall

My Dad’s Typewriter

Trailing the Light

Pencils

Riding High

Faces

Lucca

Before Daybreak

Desert Paint

Blue Stones

Nellie, My Neighbor

Crystal Ponies

Celery

Serendipity

TWO

Forgotten

The Ladies in the Neighborhood

The Water Fountain

Sea Grass

When Snow Walks In

Sand Dunes

Sam and Rosalie

Kindness

On Being Saved

Green Man

Lady Godiva

Venice Beach

Paris

Sarah Bernhardt and Alphonse Mucha

THREE

Perfection

Chasing the Unicorn

Testing Fate

In Edinburgh’s National Gallery

Crosstown Muse

The Sibyls of Siena

Sky Window

The Light Under the Doorway

Swap Meet

Summer’s Lament

Lodestone

The Plane Trip

Weight

Mom’s Photo

ONE

Growing Too Tall

There was the