finding another way new snow along the forked branches of the pine
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Wally Swist
Wally Swist's books include Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love(Southern Illinois University Press, 2012), The Daodejing: A New Interpretation, with David Breeden and Steven Schroeder (Lamar University Literary Press, 2015), Candling the Eggs (Shanti Arts, LLC, 2017), The Map of Eternity (Shanti Arts, LLC, 2018), and Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir (The Operating System, 2018). His poems and prose have appeared in The American Book Review, Anchor: Where Spirituality and Social Justice Meet, Appalachia, Arts: The Arts in Theological and Religious Studies, Commonweal, North American Review, and The Woven Tale Press. View all posts by Wally Swist
So beautifully precise and vivid. And I like how the images come after the statement… rather than the other way around. If they'd come first then the statement would have felt like an explanation of them. This way my mind travels along the branches, with the snow, and out into the air and the world around. Really lovely.