In My Locket by Marjorie Moorhead

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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In My Locket

by Marjorie Moorhead

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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.

1 review for In My Locket by Marjorie Moorhead

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    How do we process loss and grief? How do we cherish and honor those that we’ve lost?If you’re a poet, you write a chapbook’s worth of poems, and then consider sharing them with the world.
    Sample poem:

    Solace

    Snubbed by it, I understand the value of sleep
    so well just now.

    The velvety comfort of it. Waking refreshed, clear,
    renewed. You don’t know what you’ve got til

    its gone. Yes, indeed, Joni Mitchell. You called it;
    and so young.

    I will go to music, whenever possible, for solace.
    Wrap it around me like a quilt;

    relax into the warmth. Let a good ballad grab hold
    and melt like campfire marshmallows sliding

    down their stick. A voice skewered with aching
    lyrics over a jangly bare-boned tune stabs

    the target every time, and takes me away
    to a place I can rest.

    There, I’ll sit in the lap of well-sung struggle;
    ache; emotion; longing,

    let it all bleed out,
    and lay my burden down.

    (originally published in Verse-Virtual)

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