In the RootsIn the Roots

"When I arrived at the last poem in this beautiful book of poems by Abby Wheeler, I returned immediately back to the first poem. I wanted them all again, and more. This collection of pieces is luminous and liminal, subtly illuminating the edges, the beginnings and "all that lies unseen". In the garden, the chapel, and by the bedroom window we are granted a chance "to see the heart emerge." In these poems we view the lights and shadows of relationships, between person and world, self and other, between what might have been, what cannot be, and what is. Wheeler writes "my feet grow into the ground." We feel that longing for roots in this imaginative, lucid, and vulnerable collection.--Laurie Lambert, author of What We Are Made Of, Finishing Line Press, 2019"--Page [4] of cover.