UNDERSHORE: Poems C.D.V.P. Following the ancient pathways of

Following the ancient pathways of initiation of mystics

Piaf Dead and Breton Dead

Walter the Wily Walleye

and twin boys

Conley Historian Laureate of Rhode Island

UNDERSHORE: Poems C.D.V.P. Following the ancient pathways ofUndershore examines the speaker's ongoing grief following the loss of her mother to breast cancer against the backdrop of a sustained engagement with the natural world. The manuscript is structured around a series of "visitations"imagined encounters with the poet's mother after her death. The title "Undershore" is meant to describe the location of these visitationslittoral, submerged, oneirica space that is interior to the self while also at the edge