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    The Wilderness That Bears Your Name
    The Wilderness That Bears Your Name
    The Wilderness That Bears Your Name
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    The Wilderness That Bears Your Name

    By James A Pearson

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    These poems walk with you through seasons of heartbreak, rebirth, and homecoming.


    Drawing on the strength of the natural world to renew itself each spring, this debut collection from James A. Pearson doesn't flinch from the moments when life comes crashing down. But it's not stuck there, either.


    Each poem m

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoat Trail Press
    Release dateMar 26, 2024
    ISBN9798990221017
    The Wilderness That Bears Your Name
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    James A Pearson

    James A. Pearson's poems are beloved by people around the world. His work has been used to celebrate weddings, to mourn deaths and divorces, and to accompany people through major life transitions. Along with poetry he writes articles and essays, and he serves as a coach, speaker, and facilitator for people on the journey from winter to spring. He lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest of the United States.

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      The Wilderness That Bears Your Name - James A Pearson

      THE WILDERNESS THAT BEARS YOUR NAME

      THE WILDERNESS THAT BEARS YOUR NAME

      JAMES A. PEARSON

      GOAT TRAIL PRESS

      Copyright © 2024 by James A. Pearson

      All rights reserved

      Published by Goat Trail Press

      ISBN 979-8-9902210-1-7

      Book & cover design by James A. Pearson

      For Elizabeth, whose wilderness invites me

      deeper into my own.

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Prologue: Vows to the Mystery

      Fall

      One Good Wind

      The Simplest of All Regrets

      The Crash

      When That Fire

      The Way Back

      More Than Okay

      The Trail of Seeds

      Feasting Season

      Where Did the Middle Go?

      November Evening

      Absolutely Nothing

      Winter

      Wintering

      After Samhain

      Winter Solstice

      All I Mean

      Surrounded

      A New Practice

      What Needs You

      The Day Mary Oliver Died

      Absence

      The First Promise

      How Many Things

      The Holy Melancholy

      Self-Compassion

      The Hummingbird

      Standing Invitation

      Mud Season

      The Mud Season

      Weather and Flesh

      Tradecraft

      Permission to Lose Interest

      How to Listen

      What to Do After Voting

      New Glasses

      The Gift You Seek

      Jet-Lagged in Chania

      Candle Smoke

      Stealing God’s Power

      Game Trails

      Spring

      Nobody Knew

      All That’s Required of You

      Meanwhile

      What Spring Does

      The Southern Coast of Crete

      A New Spring

      Imagine

      This Spring

      Spring’s Invitation

      How to Build a Tree

      Summer

      Worker Bees

      A Simple Offering

      It’s In Everything

      What I’m Trying to Say

      The Space Between Us

      Leaving Crete

      You Take It With You

      September Now

      This Is Not the End

      Acknowledgments

      More from James A. Pearson

      About the Author

      PREFACE

      Walker, only your footprints

      are the path, and nothing else;

      Walker, there is no path…

      –Antonio Machado

      Today started off gray and drizzly here in the Pacific Northwest and showed no signs of changing.

      There was nothing on the calendar. I made breakfast for my wife, Elizabeth. I did the laundry. I went for a walk in the woods and picked up some groceries for dinner. Just a slow winter Sunday a couple weeks after Imbolc, the cross-quarter day that translates to in the belly.

      It was the kind of day that can feel calm and luxurious, or it can be filled with a constant background anxiety that keeps poking

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