A Progress Of Miracles

 

Anna and Paul are a young couple with two children who are suddenly confronted with a devastating diagnosis.  Husband and wife confront death separately and together as lyrics, in the voice of one or the other main characters are interwoven with third person narrative poems.  One reviewer said, "A Progress of Miracles takes readers to an awareness from which there is no return, but in which they will find a mysterious, transcendent grace, and an eloquent argument for meaning." 

 

 

 

 

                 (Anna)
       The Water Poem 

Our own beginnings were swimmings
in the dark and maybe this is why
we find our way flowing in darkness

over each other like water, loosening
the secrets and hardened places
until all that was fearsome

dissolves and streams together
forgiven, and I think it could
be this easy to die, falling like rain

into the ocean and lifted as
mist in the early haze
where there are no edges.