Waken to the world of dreams. Dreams and Prayers is the overflow of a poet's strange and wonderful dreams, most cherished memories, fertile waking imagination, and heartfelt prayers—more than seventy poems in all, most but not all blank verse.

Each of the book's three sections focuses its attention in a different direction:

Metaphors draws images from nature, literature, history, and more.

Darkness falls, except the moon;
A silver fog hangs above the ground.
Memory and Dreams records unforgettable moments, happy years, and strange and wonderful dreams—those that left the dreamer hating to wake up.

Fair friend, have I not wed you in my dreams?
Draw near to me, as my lids droop towards sleep,
And kiss me as I join you in my dream.
Higher Things turns thoughts above, both in prayers addressed to God, meditation on Scripture, and religious reflection. The book closes with a series of poems based on the "O Antiphons".

The wilting fields and thirsty forests prayed,
And God heard and relented; rain has come,
And filled the earth awhile again with green.

Each poem is paired with a public-domain drawing, woodcut, or illustration.

Take up and read, and explore the images and memories, dreams and prayers.

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