Dreams and Prayers

Waken to the world of dreams. Dreams and Prayers is the overflow of a poet's strange and wonderful dreams, most cherished memories, fertile waking imagination, and heartfelt prayers-more than seventy poems in all, most but not all blank verse.

Each of the book's three sections focuses its attention in a different direction:

• Metaphors draws images from nature, literature, history, and more.

  Darkness falls, except the moon;
  A silver fog hangs above the ground.

• Memory and Dreams records unforgettable moments, happy years, and strange and wonderful dreams-those that left the dreamer hating to wake up.

  Fair friend, have I not wed you in my dreams?
  Draw near to me, as my lids droop towards sleep,
  And kiss me as I join you in my dream.

• Higher Things turns thoughts above, both in prayers addressed to God, meditation on Scripture, and religious reflection. The book closes with a series of poems based on the "O Antiphons".

  The wilting fields and thirsty forests prayed,
  And God heard and relented; rain has come,
  And filled the earth awhile again with green.

Each poem is paired with a public-domain drawing, woodcut, or illustration.

Take up and read, and explore the images and memories, dreams and prayers.