TRAIL MAGIC
Felicia Mitchell
The poems in Felicia Mitchell’s Trail Magic are inspired by walks in her home of southwest Virginia and on other trails she has often visited. Whether you are an active hiker, an armchair naturalist, or somebody who loves a vicarious ramble through the natural world or another person’s mind, you will find simple wonders, kinship, and wisdom within these pages.
Spending time with Mitchell’s magical and deeply moving poetry is like walking wilderness trails with a naturalist—one who knows not only the names of every bird and flower but also the innermost workings of the human heart—her own as well as the hearts of others.
—Terri Kirby Erickson, Night Talks: New & Selected Poems
As a reader, I am suspended within this vital landscape as the narrator of the poems ponders the complicated vicissitudes of growing older. . . . Within the landscape is a brightness of being—a profundity of now. I am so moved by this work of poems. As a hiker myself, I feel so connected through them.
—Jim Harrison, Director of Outdoor Programs and Semester-a-Trail, Emory & Henry University
The magic of Felicia Mitchell’s Trail Magic lies in the healing enchantment she finds on southwestern Virginia pathways and occasionally trails farther afield. She writes: “Not much lasts, not the sound of water rushing/or a vireo singing in a tree whose name I’ll forget/before I forget why I wanted to remember it all.” Transience, uncertainty, self-awareness—all stated humbly yet wisely amid the bolstering presence of the natural world.
—Suzanne Stryk, The Middle of Somewhere: An Artist Explores the Nature of Virginia
ISBN: 979-8-991552-0-3
86 pp
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