"An invisible magnetic field 
draws us together; 
a few hours absence 
and the air crackles 
with electricity."

 
 
 
 

Electrical Storm 

 

Country road, lightning 
flashes almost directly overhead, 
a loud clap of thunder, 
the atmosphere 
charged with positive ions. 
When you touch 
even my hand 
the same electrical charge 
runs through my body. 
An invisible magnetic field 
draws us together; 
a few hours absence 
and the air crackles 
with electricity. 
When we rest 
pressed to each other 
—positive to negative— 
the circuit completes, 
energy is grounded, 
all connections brought home. 

 




excerpt from Wading the Trout River
© 1997 Carolyn Zonailo

 

Carolyn Zonailo was born in Vancouver, Canada. She has published several collections of poetry, including The Taste of Giving: New and Selected Poems. She lives in the Chateauguay Valley, southwest of Montreal, Quebec. In addition to writing, Zonailo is active with small press publishing and works as a freelance editor. Zonailo’s landscape poems are not really about landscape per se, but about inner landscape and psychological perception. These poems evoke a time of innocence, a child’s vision of the world. They describe experiences that are rooted in a specific point in family and history, while encompassing a universal time of growing up. Zonailo 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.

 

Links

The Official Carolyn Zonailo Website

League of Canadian Poets

Cosmic Data Bank (Includes Poem)

Poetry Spoken Here

 

 
     

East Coast Trilogy

Book One

 

Nature's Grace

 A 1993 Release

 

Nature's Grace is a collection of poems that radiates meditative calm. These are poems of the single moment of grace  and clarity perceived in solitude; poems of observation and statement of fact, sometimes surprisingly political, offering insight into human nature.

"This cross-section of Carolyn Zonailo's many poetic talents succeeds admirably. Zonailo can be lyrical and exquisitely sensuous in one poem, and then caustic, satirical, and downright polemical in the next....this book is strongly recommended as a collector's piece."

—E.L. Edmonds



 ISBN 0-921852-03-7 
66 pp. 5 ½" x 8 ½"  $10.00

 

Book Two:


Memory House

A 1995 Release

 

The poems in Memory House reveal moments of "magic" sensibility, when the division between reader and poem is transcended, the barriers collapsed, and conscious thoughts transformed into poetic consciousness. This luminosity in the poemis a gift to the reader—offering spiritual insight that shakes us out of a normal way of thinking.

"In Carolyn Zonailo's poetry the quotidian is always under  instruction from the marvelous. Looking out of a clear eye, Zonailo tries to find a sure music to translate what she sees into the wonder of poetry."

—Bruce Whiteman


 ISBN 0-921852-08-8 
77 pp. 5 ½" x 8 ½"  $12.00

 

Book Three:


Wading the Trout River

A 1997 Release 



Wading the Trout River is her ninth book of poetry. The four sections in this volume 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 every-day. These poems offer insight into what it means to be contained by gender, time, consciousness and geo-graphy.


"This is a wonderful, touching, insightful book."

—Don Precosky



 "Zonailo’s poems ring like mellow bells—clean, vivid, vibrant, brilliant."

—Canadian Book Review Annual



 ISBN 0-921852-18-5 
100 pp. 5 ½" x 8 ½"  $12.00

 

 

 

 
   

 

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