Merry Hall, author of Bringing Food Home: The Maine Example, posted the following review on the Portland Maine Permaculture Meetup website in June 2012:
Our Elaine McGillicuddy dedicates her book of poems, Sing
to Me and I Will Hear You, to her recently departed and much beloved
husband thus:
For Francis
who knew how to
“surrender to Mystery”
Elaine, too, surrenders to the Mystery that unfolds when
a poet stands naked at the intersection of specific personal experience and
universal Love. She opens her grief at losing Francis to death and her joy at
finding him embraced by eternal Life.
By now your spinal cancer pain
has chained you to your bed.
I floss your teeth;
I help you pee.
And what do you say to me?
"O, what a wonderful moment this is!
My beloved’s here with me.
You look good, you feel good,
and you are so good to me.”
O Francis dear - What sweetness!
What love and brave acceptance!
You’re forever seared upon my soul.
What a gift! I am simultaneously humbled and inspired in
the face of such love. With her poem:
Pain’s
sharp edge
cuts
through appearance
of
disappearance.
Heart’s
remembering sharpens
sense
to touch
new,
you, now, any when.
Elaine
reveals that I, too, can experience transcendence if I will only surrender to
the immediacy of my emotions so deeply that I have only to dive in. The
intimacy is astounding; the immediacy is breathtaking.
It is
when we thus surrender that the poetry we co-create with the Universe washes
through us unbidden, healing reader and writer alike:
These
Poems
--custom-made
maps
carefully
drawn
By the
Cartographer
Offering
to show me
My
way.
These
poems
--like
bells ringing out
my
truth, resounding
through
the clouds and darkness, guide
me
home.
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