A poetry book full of questions to embody while recognizing and unmasking gender and neurodivergence. Questions about death and gratitude, losing and finding love, untangling and reweaving stories, and becoming part of an ecosystem.
Reading this debut collection of poetry from GraySea Iris is like falling into the lucid dream of moss and sea. The rhythm in these words, like waves, pulls insistently yet gently through each season-surrounded with art, nature, and mysticism. GraySea reminds us of elemental truths so easily lost in the busyness of life. Slow down, this book seems to say, pay attention, “There is a conversation / that the world is having / that some of us have for-gotten / we are a part of.” Open this book and dance with GraySea “into the cyclical un-known.”
Joann Renee Boswell, author of Meta-Verse!: it’s going to be interesting to see how yesterday goes
When GraySea Iris turns the bright light of their awareness to the stones, to the rain, to the ache of grief, they don’t perceive these things as isolated phenomena outside themselves. They see connections. They glimpse a wondrous language that is written into the fabric of existence itself. They notice all the relationships that dwell beneath the surface; they re-mind us how much richer our lives could be if we really paid attention.
Mike Huber, program director of Quaker Voluntary Service
The poetry of GraySea Iris is an invitation into conversation with all the beings that com-pose our environment. Reading their verse is remembering the aliveness of everything around us and remembering that time, too, is a living being with whom we can dance.
Liz Vitale, Ocean Heart Acupuncture
