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Walking with Jeanne E. Clark at dusk through Gorrill's Orchard, we come upon blue flowers of chicory reaching through a deer's rib cage. Wild forgiveness startles us. These earthy poems testify to a life among almond trees, a life walked with dogs rescued and rescuing. Questions of love flare like wildfire. Quietly exquisite and lonely --- these poems, where hope returns like rain, unexpected and musical. Peggy Shumaker, author of Gnawed Bones and Just Breathe Normally
In Gorrill's Orchard, Jeanne E. Clark offers a serious poem, every time, and we are the better for it. She writes us into a mood, settles both us and the poem together as if we were horse and rider, then gives a gentle tap to the beast, sending us off with the faithful accompaniment of one of the dogs so present and alive in these pages. The adventure we are pushed toward is not the wild ride of movies, but the wander of a life in measure and these poems, to borrow a line from one of them, are sleepy bees, suspended in smoke. To read them is to have been shown something quietly from the edges of this world. Alberto Rios, author of The Dangerous Shirt and The Theater of Night
