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This poem is from the book A Furious Surrendering— Poems for Navigating the Unraveling by William Prindle (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/a-furious-surrendering-poems-for-navigating-the-unraveling-by-william-prindle/
Bill Prindle is a poet deepening his voice in the third half of life. His poetry explores the human and nonhuman worlds and the seams between them by creating portals to new ways of seeing and connecting with the greater web of life. But they are also invitations to resilience in the face of the “great unraveling” of human systems that have overshot the planet’s ability to sustain them, and that serve the wealthy at the expense of most people. From forest wanderings to surviving today’s highways and modern America to practicing restorative silviculture, his poetry is both personal and collective, introspective and prophetic, reminiscent and present.Bill takes inspiration from the daily astonishments of his life in the Virginia woods. He also roots his writing in a diverse range of authors, from the rhapsodes of ancient Greece to the ecstatic poetry of Rumi and Kabir, to English speakers like Yeats and Eliot, to Spanish-speakers like Neruda, Machado and Lorca, to more modern poets like Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, Joy Harjo, and Jane Hirshfield. His 2025 poetry collection Medicine Cache Under Lichen was published by Finishing Line Press. He hosts the Charlottesville Live Poets Society, has won multiple Poetry Society of Virginia awards, and has been published in several journals and anthologies, including the 2021 Streetlight Magazine Anthology. He has studied with Lisa Russ Spahr, Neil Perry, and Gregory Orr among other great teachers.
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