First published 2025
Catherine Anderson examines her world through the lens of a scientist studying specimens, a painter capturing light, and a philosopher seeking meaning. She transforms ordinary moments into poetry that pulses with rhythm and music. Anderson picks up knitting needles for the first time, slices through rhubarb stalks in her garden, and selects blooms in supermarket aisles. These simple acts become meditations on love's complexities, spiritual questions, and social justice. She celebrates beauty and wonder while acknowledging the grief and suffering that shadow them. Her verses elevate everything they encounter, from feather dancers and bell ringers to microscopic tardigrades and poets from previous generations. Anderson reveals how the mundane holds the sacred and shows the invisible threads linking people to each other, to nature, and to history.
Genres: science, nature, art, poetry, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, slice-of-life
Period: 21st-Century
93 pages · Paperback · Meadowlark Press