Abstract

The term passages, evokes the French term for landscapes, paysages. These poems are concerned with mapping: alternately marking new trails and finding paths through forests, bodies of water and cityscapes: places both familiar and unknown. As a whole, these Passages explore a personal vision of the natural world, family and community. Structured to represent the passage of time through four seasons, the collection explores rites of passage, the passage of life into death, and metamorphosis: the transformation of rocks, water, trees or light into the loci of memory.