The Secret Trees

The poet is obliged to take the Creation and its textures seriously, since it is in the language of those textures that he speaks to us of all the rest of our experience. The delights, perplexities, horrors, and quiet pleasures of life, and the emotions we feel in response to them, and the mysteries and immensities of the divine Drama - the poet comes at these things, not via abstractions and generalities, but by exact and concrete images which he sees lying all around him all the time. Luci Shaw shows this. Read her poetry here. let these verses... lead you to the regions where you not only reflect on things, but where you grasp and touch and feel them, and where you discover that there is a transubstantiation going on - that what you supposed was mere earth bespeaks heaven.