gull came winging: poems

"A remarkable observer of the ways of water, wing, wind, and word." "A sensitive gaze turns inward to make a thought-provoking connection." The New York Times Spelling Bee attracts a large following of enthusiastic word lovers who delight in the daily challenge of ferreting out a list of from a seemingly-random array of seven letters. A handful of Bee solvers delights in the challenge of composing poetry, essays, and more with words from the daily game. A gull came winging compiles a selection of work by one of these "Hive poets" known as "peregrine from the rocky shore." This volume, the fourth in a series, presents 100 poems, including some thirty not previously released, that explore our relationship with the natural world, as well as meditations on memory, solitude, and love. Readers who have come to appreciate peregrine's poetry will be delighted to find 17 sonnets in this volume, along with more poems in the Bartlett Bay series.