It's hard to know what to rave about first-Sally Stewart Mohney's ability to capture and celebrate the everydayness of ordinary lives or her use of language-sparse, precise, and always musical. She writes of places, often identified with the people on whom they've left their mark and who have left their mark on them, in what is, perhaps, only a brief moment in time. Skillfully, with insight and compassion, she records those moments we tend to take for granted, those rare revelations hastily glimpsed, frequently forgotten. -Diana Anhalt, author of A Gathering of Fugitives..., Shiny Objects, Second Skin, Lives of Straw, Because There is No Return and Walking BackwardSally Stewart Mohney is a painterly poet. She colors these quiet poems with beautiful diction. Unexpected word combinations, alliteration, "Gray rocks bleed / green over glazed water," and strings of images create a gauzy sense of solitude, whether the speakercontemplates a river or touches her late mother's 'totems' one by one: "White / conch, shellacked horn, curdled / Christmas candles, a brittle corsage." -Karen Paul Holmes, Author of Tying the Knot and No Such Things as DistanceFor me, Sally Stewart Mohney's poems are so painterly in their expression and tide-like in their flow and restraint, that they create for me 'waking dreams, ' in which subtext and context coalesce. Her landscapes, flora, fauna, and people are beautiful, strange, and lambent. They are poems crafted by a writer equipped with hyper-perceptive care, a sensitive mind and heart-ones that, when carefully read deeply felt, reward the reader's mind and emotions equally. Her work is unique and extraordinary.-William Wright, Series Editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Author of Tree Heresies
