Wading the Trout River

The four sections of this book contain lyric poems that explore such themes as love and the nature of union; masculine/feminine roles; the perception of the divine in connection to the everyday. These poems offer insight into what it means to be contained by gender, time, consciousness and geography.nnZonailo sees life with the poet’s eye, the lover’s eye. It is not only romantic love, but love in all its forms — love for creation. Zonailo finds poetry and affirmation in much that she sees, whether it be nature, an old woman, or an eccentric doorman. This is a world held together with love, and passionately evoked in poetry.