Catherine Chandler's Poetry Blog

Sunday, September 27, 2026

ANNALS OF THE DEAR UNKNOWN: PART THREE - WESTMORELAND

 


 

 Part Three

Westmoreland


If they could, the trees would lift you
and carry you from valley to valley,
and you would pass from arm to arm,
as a child walks from father to father.


—Gabriela Mistral, from “Bosque del pino”
(translation by Catherine Chandler)

 

 

CHAPTERS IN PART THREE:

(!)    The Finer Forge

(2)    The Mystic Shining Cup

(3)    A Joyless Eye

(4)    Son of My Sorrow

(5)    Her Cabin'd Ample Spirit

(6)    The Burning Sky

(7)    Departed

(8)    Together They Come

(9)    In a Lonely Field 


COMING SOON: CHAPTER ONE - THE FINER FORGE

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