Featured Poet: Patrice Pinette, Wilton
 Patrice lives in Wilton. She teaches at High Mowing School, a Waldorf High School, and serves as Faculty Chair. Her classes include creative writing, drama, mythology and eurythmy, an art of movement that makes visible the dance inherent in the sounds of language. She also leads adult workshops and gives poetry readings at summer RENEWAL sessions sponsored by Center for Anthroposophy. Publications include anthologies-Images From Ruin,New Hampshire Poetry Society, Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies, Red Hen Press, several journals, U.S. Catholic magazine, a chapbook called Architects of Madness, and broadsides in collaboration with artist, Susan Q. Brown.Patrice's immediate family includes her husband, two children and three cats. She can be reached at patricepinette@tds.net.
The poem Here arose from someone else's story. Although I had been to Scotland, it was hearing another speak of the profound silence and stillness there in the stark and beautiful Highlands that prompted not only a memory, but an awareness of a corresponding inner landscape-equally still, and always present.
Here
do you know nothingness
this is where I find it
among miles of heather
purple red orange burnt orange
stretching over the highlands in Scotland
and there in the peace of no bird
no rustling thing no silent deer all alone
I ask God to speak to me
and in the silence
what does He say
nothing
nothing
do you know nothingness
that is the most powerful
absence
the miles of heather all around no bird no
sound even the silent deer are nowhere
and I say God can you speak to me
then of course I listen with might
and expectation empties
when no other voice says
I am here
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