BOOKS
She Who Sees The World: Isle of Eigg. Published by Middle Creek Publishing. Forthcoming 2024
Way To Blue Mountain: Ecology of Creativity contains eight meditative offerings — poems that hold a lot of space for breath. Each poem or stanza, or indeed, any single line may be taken as a singular node to contemplate, sit with and inspire. This is a book that calls the reader to engagement in a slow meditative manner. Let this slender offering accompany you as a guiding prompt on wanderings in the outdoors.
From the enigmatic bonds between mind and earth to the familiar senses of the outdoors, Christine Morro’s Way to Blue Mountain takes readers on a journey with its short, meditative lines. Here, in the quiet spaces where poems breathe gently on the page, Morro offers guidance toward connection with the natural world. “Begin here,” she kindly directs, before delving into sweeping endeavors of contemplation. Her poems form a litany that ebbs and flows as it blurs biospheric observations with the act of creation through written word. The space given to her poems on each page slows time as we “step to the edge” of a deeper understanding.
—Dane Hamann, author of A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun and Parsing the Echoes
Way To Blue Mountain published 2023 by Middle Creek Publishing
https://www.middlecreekpublishing.com/product-page/way-to-blue-mountain-by-christine-morro
In Beauty We Are Made Visible is a moving meditation on connection, that "ancient contract of belonging". Its poems shape silence into a space of elemental reflection, reminding us of the multiple points of contact between humans and Earth itself. Through Christine Morro's luminous language, worlds of water, stone and air become intimate, animate, and familiar. Attention becomes an act of loving. "What do we do", she asks, "with these moments / that feel like transmission". This beautiful and compelling collection is her reply.
—Julian Hoffman, author of Irreplaceable and The Small Heart of Things
In Beauty We are Made Visible published by Middle Creek Publishing, 2022. Please visit their website to purchase https://www.middlecreekpublishing.com/in-beauty-we-are-made-visible. In Beauty is also available on amazon.
Hold a pond to the light
you will see poems
even shrouded in fog
you see light
Sesachucha Pond
in dawn’s low voice Sack-a-juh
here the eastern rim of the earth
conspires with the Atlantic
there is no place that does not see
still suffused with brilliance
the floating torso and tail of a Striped Bass
the words of Rilke flow with the current
'we cannot know his legendary head'
leaning into this light
i bow to what knows no deliberating
She Who Sees The World: Isle of Eigg. Published by Middle Creek Publishing. Forthcoming 2024
Way To Blue Mountain: Ecology of Creativity contains eight meditative offerings — poems that hold a lot of space for breath. Each poem or stanza, or indeed, any single line may be taken as a singular node to contemplate, sit with and inspire. This is a book that calls the reader to engagement in a slow meditative manner. Let this slender offering accompany you as a guiding prompt on wanderings in the outdoors.
From the enigmatic bonds between mind and earth to the familiar senses of the outdoors, Christine Morro’s Way to Blue Mountain takes readers on a journey with its short, meditative lines. Here, in the quiet spaces where poems breathe gently on the page, Morro offers guidance toward connection with the natural world. “Begin here,” she kindly directs, before delving into sweeping endeavors of contemplation. Her poems form a litany that ebbs and flows as it blurs biospheric observations with the act of creation through written word. The space given to her poems on each page slows time as we “step to the edge” of a deeper understanding.
—Dane Hamann, author of A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun and Parsing the Echoes
Way To Blue Mountain published 2023 by Middle Creek Publishing
https://www.middlecreekpublishing.com/product-page/way-to-blue-mountain-by-christine-morro
In Beauty We Are Made Visible is a moving meditation on connection, that "ancient contract of belonging". Its poems shape silence into a space of elemental reflection, reminding us of the multiple points of contact between humans and Earth itself. Through Christine Morro's luminous language, worlds of water, stone and air become intimate, animate, and familiar. Attention becomes an act of loving. "What do we do", she asks, "with these moments / that feel like transmission". This beautiful and compelling collection is her reply.
—Julian Hoffman, author of Irreplaceable and The Small Heart of Things
In Beauty We are Made Visible published by Middle Creek Publishing, 2022. Please visit their website to purchase https://www.middlecreekpublishing.com/in-beauty-we-are-made-visible. In Beauty is also available on amazon.
Hold a pond to the light
you will see poems
even shrouded in fog
you see light
Sesachucha Pond
in dawn’s low voice Sack-a-juh
here the eastern rim of the earth
conspires with the Atlantic
there is no place that does not see
still suffused with brilliance
the floating torso and tail of a Striped Bass
the words of Rilke flow with the current
'we cannot know his legendary head'
leaning into this light
i bow to what knows no deliberating
