This poem is about monarch butterflies experiencing a long-term decline due to threats from habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change. In pre-Hispanic legend, the migrating butterflies carried ancestral souls visiting from the afterlife.
Category: Poetry
Would Love to See You at the North Georgia Regional Book Fair: 9/13
On Saturday, September 13, 2025 (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.), Catherine Hamrick will join 100 authors for the North Georgia Regional Book Fair at the University of North Georgia Convocation Center . It’s a free event at a gorgeous venue (180 Alumni Drive, Dahlonega, Georgia 30597) with spacious parking and refreshments.
Coneflower Sequence: Finding Harmony in a Fractured World
Last spring, I wanted something trouble-free and found it in coneflower seed packets, buying into the midsummer promise of self-sowing sun lovers—now overrunning the garden with nature’s lavender turns. Seed heads bristle symmetry, measure upon measure, Fibonacci’s weathered tune luring goldfinches to August feasts.
Fortunate Fall: An Angel Plunges into Finitude Just for Love
In the film Wings of Desire, an angel perches on buildings that tower over Berlin. Seeing the world only in black and white, he listens to the stream of human thought driven by the spectrum of emotions. Without interfering, except for leaning in to express empathy, he documents earthly existence until taking the plunge to become human.
Mottled History: The Love Behind a Peeling Vintage Table
I wore down layers of old paint on the vintage table. Running my hands over the just-right smoothness, I saw stories in the splotched surface: black paint from the furniture’s earliest days—maybe when my grandmother sipped morning coffee and gazed on her flowers; green when my mother went for a spring look; and sunny yellow in the hopeful days of my marriage.