My Body is a Forest-Cypress/Right Arm

In "My Body is a Forest, Cypress/Right Arm", the strength, perseverance, faith, and courage represented in Elm/Left Arm are also born witness to. In truth, as the books were laid out, no preference was made to put either Left or Right, as preferred. They are equally "important" and neither could survive without the other.

It might be said, the two Arms books, are put together in the lap of a meditating man or praying nun, to hold them together so that, as with the Forest analogy, the writer is a Whole thing, consistent, kind, generous, and unboundedly faithful toward the love and compassion he holds for all men, women, and children.

And as with the other books, this one is inclusive of many faces, voices, images, people and experience, ranging over a 30 year period, from young man to seasoned poet.

I hope they "lift you" up to the Sun, Moon, and Tree Tops.