Between Root and Sky is a contemporary poetry collection exploring grief, love, and spiritual transformation through nature-based, contemplative verse.
We live suspended between what grounds us and what calls us upward?held by earth while longing for flight, shaped by attachment while learning to let go. These poems trace that human terrain. They begin at thresholds where we form our deepest bonds with lovers, landscape, and the women who taught us how to belong. They move through the unraveling that comes with grief and loss, sitting in darkness without rushing toward resolution. And they return?not to triumph, but to integration?carrying loss as carefully as love.
Written for readers navigating grief, life transitions, and inner change, Between Root and Sky offers poetry that does not look away from difficulty. Nature appears not as escape, but as teacher and witness. The poems honor loneliness, courage, and the quiet ways meaning is restored.
This collection will resonate with readers seeking poetry for grief and healing, mindfulness and spiritual growth, and those drawn to contemporary nature poetry in the lineage of Mary Oliver, David Whyte, and Ada Limón.
Between Root and Sky is for anyone learning how to remain rooted while still reaching?fully human, breakable and resilient, earthbound and transcendent.
