The Heart Of It All.The Heart Of It All Lori Goff iUniverse, Inc. 2021 Pine Lake Road, #100, Lincoln, NE 68512 1674 Bolton Street, Walled Lake, MI 48390 (author) 0595407013, $14.95 www.iuniverse.com In the pages of "The Heart Of It All", Lori Goff deftly articulates the joys and sorrows of ordinary life while drawing upon landscapes comprising the natural world. Poet, essayist and editor, Lori Goff is clearly a master wordsmith word·smith n. 1. A fluent and prolific writer, especially one who writes professionally. 2. An expert on words. Noun 1. who intimately memorable verse and lyrical prose is to be treasured and read again and again. 'Rhine River Vineyards': Acres of snarled, blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. stalks,/bent from heavy bearing years,/dance a one-legged jig.//Acres of gnarled gnarled adj. 1. Having gnarls; knotty or misshapen: gnarled branches. 2. Morose or peevish; crabbed. 3. darkened dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. trunks,/tortured contortions,/are scary as Halloween hags.//Acres of intertwined branches/with no beginning or end/hold hands for comfort.//Acres of crisscrossed criss·cross v. criss·crossed, criss·cross·ing, criss·cross·es v.tr. 1. To mark with crossing lines. 2. stakes/are strung with wound wire,/bound together forever.//Acres of canopy-formed leaves/with clusters of swollen grapes/wait for harvest. |
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