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Rolling the Sun

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A dear friend gave me this book before Christmas but I have had to spread out my time reading it because it is so powerful and challenges all my pretenses. This is not poetry to be read lightly. I am afraid to even read some of them again, but here is a sample. Many are more obtuse.

Breaking Out

What is your prison?
Is it a cell with bars and a cot?

Or the nursing home window
where your bedridden mother looks out?

The day you quit school?
Settled your divorce?

The glass ceiling,
doing the dishes,
a missed period?

Define your prison. Plot
how to steal the keys.
One of them has got to fit the lock.

I was reading some of Julia Older's poems to my diva friend Lisa over the phone and she said "These are beautiful, how did something this beautiful get published?"
These poems are a cosmic garden. I love this book.

Ms. Older's poetry deftly explores the light and shadow that's scattered about the landscape of the soul. Her communion with Nature is as honest and forthright as it is gentle. Rolling the Sun is accessible and universal.