And reading poetry, like the books in our 2018 poetry review, can be a great way to not make perfect sense of a thing, but to just be with a thing.

T.S. Eliot attracts and repels all at once—but reading his 'Four Quartets' has been a formative experience for many a spiritual seeker.

I woke with Lycidas on my tongue, and I should have known.

her wrists are shackled, / her head’s in her hand.

“Atticus is a storyteller, observer…. He loves the ocean, the desert, whiskey and playing with words.”

I offer three ways I love you: (1) for your wild poetic imagination; (2) for your poems about unnoticed people; and (3) for your poems about the Divine.