Shore Pine Bonsai: And Other Poems of My Journey

You are always there in your loving,
Restless awareness, so very present
And intense in your longings.
Like the marsh bird cooing in the dark,
Always probing to know more
Of life, of love, of me.

Decades ago, Rea Anne Scovill transformed the anger, fear, and grief related to childhood experiences into positive life’s work. Now in her debut collection of poetry, she unveils a lifetime of epiphanies, beginning with a poem penned when she was just fourteen and ending with one created six decades la...