Red Thread Through a Rusty Needle: Poetry by Gay Guard-Chamberlin

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Red Thread Through a Red Needle is a collection of 36 evocative poems, melancholic and whimsical, that explores the natural world and the collapse of ecosystems, mothers and daughters, aging, the inner life of words, and the secret lives of ordinary objects.

“These are not poems for the timid, capturing as they do the paradoxical intertwining of domestic and mythic, intimate and philosophical, keenly observant and musingly imaginative. These are poems for the times-in-between, when the way home winds a bit too crookedly, or when the fog rolls in too thick and fast.  Gay’s poems are gifts for all of us in need of a phrase like “Don’t you see the whole world shining?”  Exactly that.” —Ronne Hartfield, poet and author of Another Way Home