The World Still Becoming: 100 Poems

What if the world is not something finished, but something continually becoming? The World Still Becoming is a collection of one hundred poems that begins with the smallest things: an automatic door, a porcelain bowl, a key, the air inside a cup, a receipt, a window after rain. Look closely, and the ordinary begins to change. A door becomes a meditation on arrival. A key remembers thresholds without keeping anyone. A page turns without erasing what came before. Rain leaves the glass, tides redraw the shore, roots enter stone, forests move beyond their last trees, and mountains rise even as rivers carry them away. Moving through four parts-Things That Wait, Ways of Seeing, The Living Earth, and Still Becoming-the collection gradually widens its gaze from the objects beside us to the forces shaping the living world. These poems are concerned with time, change, impermanence, continuity, and the quiet processes that often escape our notice. They ask us to look again at what seems empty, still, broken, finished, or gone-and to discover that transformation may already be taking place. For readers drawn to contemplative poetry, nature writing, and the hidden meanings of ordinary life, The World Still Becoming offers one hundred small places in which to pause. The world does not need to begin again. It never stopped becoming. ReplyForward