Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem
Motes founds the Church Without Christ
and went on to create groundbreaking art and music while campaigning for peace and other causes
forcing a rearrangement of global governance
including When You Reach Me
All the Possible Bodies Little does anyone gathered aroundMemory, story, impressions, witness, culpability, our very humanness course through this book and strip us, via our interaction, of pretense. The poems are language and image driven narratives that present us with deep and abiding love, a need for orienting oneself, for respecting the process of orientation. They also dwell in the instantaneous shifts, the sudden changes that simultaneously jar and reassure us. The dreamy realism of the work grounds.