Horizons and landmarks

A sequence of lyric poems traces passage from childhood through youth to adulthood, employing rural and coastal imagery—meadows, forests, roads, hills, and distant shores—to explore memory, longing, love, faith, and the impulse to seek beyond familiar bounds. Early pieces evoke home and wonder; middle poems dwell on youthful desire and the pursuit of ideals; later verse confronts responsibility, loss, and spiritual striving. Recurring motifs of horizons, pathways, and evening light frame meditations on belonging and the tension between wonder and experience. The collection interweaves intimate domestic detail with reflective philosophical moments, ending in a tempered resolve that the quest for meaning continues.