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In My Locket by Marjorie Moorhead

$17.99

 

When I think of a portrait in a locket, I picture a fading photo of someone whose life was somehow meaningful to the wearer. In this lovely selection of poems, Marjorie takes that single photo and makes it a window into the lives of a treasured family, with nostalgia and love flowing through her poems like a quiet stream, a stream you will want to return to often to drink its crystal-clear memories.

–j.lewis – Editor of Verse-Virtual Journal and author of “as if a caress.”

 

As elegy, the beautifully rendered poems in Marjorie Moorhead’s In My Locket bear witness to the slow death of a father during the early chaos of the pandemic. The persona shoulders burdens we may recognize as our own: loved ones’ accumulated illnesses, the societal stressors and environmental concerns caused by an erratic president, and our once-full homes becoming empty nests. Loss, these poems assure us, is certain, but even during a pandemic, nature blossoms. Like the insomniac finding solace in music, Moorhead invites readers to embrace what grounds us, to find “amazement in less,” in the “small steady blessings” that make up our lives.

–Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Editor Sheila-Na-Gig Editions

 

 

 

 

 

 

In My Locket

by Marjorie Moorhead

Paper

List: $17.99

979-8-88838-572-2

2024

Anyone who has experienced loss of a parent will recognize this journey through grief, acceptance, celebration, memory, that preserves the departed loved one in our hearts. Marjorie Moorhead’s In My Locket shares a loving portrait of her father, and coming to terms with a life without him in it, while reminding readers to notice and find solace in the small wonders present in each day we are given.

Marjorie Moorhead lives and writes at the border of NH/VT. She is author of Every Small Breeze (Kelsay 2023), and What I Ask (Kelsay 2024). Also, chapbooks Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (Finishing Line Press 2019)  and Survival Part 2: Trees, Birds, Ocean, Bees (Duck Lake Books 2020).  Marjorie’s work appears in journals including Amethyst Review, Tiny Seed Literary, Moist Poetry Journal, Bloodroot Literary, Sheila-Na-Gig, Porter House Review, Poeming Pigeon, Verse-Virtual, What Rough Beast, A River Sings, The Poet’s Touchstone, and others. Her poems are included in anthologies benefitting environmental, women’s, COVID first responder, and refugee aid organizations. She has a poem in The Wonder of Small Things (James Crews, ed. 2023). Marjorie’s local poetry group is 4th Friday Poets.

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