Cold Mountain

In her first collection of poems, Mary Picard opens up a window onto her worlds of experience from "ground level" to the tops of a mountain in the Himalayas. Humanity speaks to us through friends who dare, the rose that mimics our aloneness, or the will to love. In "beyond here" the author takes us to a place of witness to life’s indelible dramas that shift the fragile ground of our being. And in "evocative places," we travel to far-flung corners of the globe where earth, rain, the moon, and the wind still triumph at home in the universe. In the final section, "cold mountain," the author celebrates the place of silence, where only Nature speaks, and the Self surrenders.