Grief is a shapeshifter throughout seasons, “a cosmos code”. Kathryn MacDonald becomes his shadow, a companion, and an observer. She knows grief is “a myth to live by” and that he “casts lines in ink” In the precious days between the life and death of her dear friend. On a boat called Bliss, and with a shaman heron, and a butterfly, Wayside “momentarily stops the rush of time.
– Micheline Maylor, author of The Bad Wife
If lyric be the song of memory, of love and loss, then play on! If metaphor be the poet’s brush, then this poet’s brushwork is pure pleasure. Every poem is a watercolour, lucid and revealing, bleeding, like sunlight bleeds, from the poet’s hand to the reader’s eye. Birds and flora, a gentle paddle, a blue bicycle that wobbles, a boat named Bliss. These and “a lingering kiss of summer” leave long shadows on the page. …Kathryn MacDonald gives us poetry that “shatters silence” and brings us to its source.
– Antony Di Nardo, author of Forget – Sadness – Grass
In this luminous collection of poems, Kathryn MacDonald spins a living world of intense beauty, underscored by sorrow for her friend’s terminal diagnosis…. The depth of the unspoken is revealed in delicately penned verses that weave the heart’s rhythms within nature’s own patterns of immanence. … the alchemical power of words transmutes unspeakable love and grief into a heightened state of awareness, merging the soul with an all-enveloping cosmos.
– Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews, author of A Nomenclature of Light
