Essays of a poet wandering through things divine or perhaps the world, as you will, reflections on the Word or the wonder. Yes, we could so easily wonder.
I am a dawn-watcher, a night-sky-gazer, and a sojourner in a strange land. I write poems, novels, short stories, and essays. But I can't resist splashing around in watercolor, oils, acrylic, and maybe pen & ink. Who knows.
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Heart Before the Course is the ongoing writing project of Abbey von Gohren to explore the weight we feel in living and moving and having our being in this world, while perhaps being made for (also) other worlds.