The cover of my second poetry book collection, The Turning of Light, features Claude Monet’s luminous painting, Woman With a Parasol, Facing Left (1886), one of the most beloved images of the Impressionist movement.
In the painting, Monet captured more than a woman standing in a field. He captured a moment of living light — clouds drifting across the sky, wind moving through tall grass, and sunlight shifting across the landscape.
Nothing in the scene is still. Light moves, the sky changes, and the moment itself seems to pass even as we look at it.
That quiet transformation of light lies close to the spirit of the poems in The Turning of Light, which follow the turning of the seasons and the subtle ways time reshapes memory, love, and the inner life.
The Turning of Light can be found on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover versions.
lilies, sparrows and grass 
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