num_pages: 72
description: Her muse is a stray cat. It lives in the moment like her poems, Drawing from a Zen world of moments; the ones that momentarily startle us out of our habitual way of thinking by violating our expectations so we more fully experience the textures of now, her poems defy conventional mindsets and form as her images leap one to another, as a cat leaps across to whatever there is. Fully aware that enlightenment is elusive, that her way, regardless of whether through relationships with men, women, drugs, tarot cards, even poetry, may point to an empty end of road, random events and arbitrary meanings can assume fluidity and insight because, as she's written, "there's enough/in my life/to drive me/to be born/into it/again/and again." Each of her poems, like a cat, knows how to be where it is, fully alive in its Zen moment of "I want to live every day/ in ecstacy/firing through/my nine lives/until there is nothing left." Her pages licked with independent light.
language: English
title: Cat bones in the tree
titlecomplete: Cat bones in the tree
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Hale Mary Press