Heading Home: Poems

by Loreta M. Medina

Excerpt from Introduction by Benilda S. When a women heads home, she invariably finds herself ready to celebrate the self--herself. In this first collection of poems, Lory Medina makes a clearing in her dense forest of memories. She traverses the path, carefully marking in her mind's eye images of nature and people and places and things to finally pay homage to a found consciousness already supple with inner life and light. With the sun as her guide in "Song to the Sun,"Lory sculpts a persona submerged in the communal, relishing the light, heat and violence of its universal radiance. This is a possible beginning. Woman needs light, after all, to survey the scene unfolding before her, as in the introductory piece, "One Day in the Lagoon,"or give shape to even the imperceptible gestures of nature in "Leaves of Meditation,"or "Winter Tree." Here, woman is part of the entire tapestry, woven with the whole and willing invisibility for the sake of an imaginary oneness. Which is just as well, until woman manifests as poet, seduced by words and seducing words on the path to imaging self or woman-space... Poet passed away a few years ago and we regret that we will not hear her poetic voice again.

55 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996