Rites of the Late Season (full-length poetry manuscript).
In Rites of the Late Season, the poet lays bare both the inevitable pain and the undeniable power and grace of aging womanhood. These poems examine themes of ritual and the secular sacred, of air and earth and light, of perennial plant growth and dormancy, of seasons and cycles, of endings becoming new beginnings. She looks to the rituals in everyday life with astonishment and wonder, finding in them a hidden source of self-empowerment and spirituality. With both frustration and joy, these poems dance around the edge of enchantment. And as age attempts to diminish her, in body and in spirit, the poet answers with a stubborn brightness and abundance that bursts at the seams.