Lana Hechtman Ayers ‘96 (New England, MA) published a new, national book award-nominated poetry collection The Autobiography of Rain. Its poems explore the healing power of nature in a world that is as rife with grief as it is ripe with beauty. Ayers is a poet, novelist, and publisher who lives with her husband and several fur babies on the Oregon coast in a town famous for barking sea lions. She is the architect of the “severed sonnet” form and author of eight full-length poetry collections.
Here is a short poem from The Autobiography of Rain:
River Light
grief and grit
and still the moon above
still the moon path
flowing across the river
like a raft
save yourself
in the quiet hours
one kind word at a time
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