"Soon Venus blazes in an indigo sky and leaves her silver footsteps in the still lake below. I'm pierced Through with beauty."
These phrases, selected at random, catch the author's deep responses to the myriad worlds within the world. She looks down and sensitively describes the treasures beneath her feet, but is ready to look up as well, toward the mysteries hidden among the stars-poems of above and below. These are dedicated to the ever-new yet ancient wisdom of Sophia-the very embodiment of wisdom-whom the poet herself subtly embodies, as her descriptions in her writings reveal, reaching out as they do into the varied aspects of existence.
Walter Spink
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