Poems

HIVE · TEMPLE · HUM

HIVE - TEMPLE - HUM, front cover

Fifteen devotional poems and nine original drawings, in a small perfect-bound edition you can hold in your hand.
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Self-published in New York

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4.5″ × 6″, 53 pages, perfect bound — a small edition you can hold in your hand. Printed at my own expense and mailed by me. Write to me for a copy and we’ll sort out shipping — I pack them within a few days.

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Devotional art is rare in this self-centered culture, but this gorgeous collection of poems from Shawn FitzGerald invites each of us to remember what it means to fall in love with the divine—and surrender to the mysteries of a spiritual beloved.

Clark Strand & Perdita Finnco-authors of The Way of the Rose

Again and again in the poems here FitzGerald seems, much like Moses at Horeb, to have tapped at the seemingly stubborn and unyielding substance within, whether of the world or of our stony hearts, and brought forth a healing and transforming flow, inviting us to wash in it.

Michael Joyceauthor of Capricorn Venus Descendant
Devotion is a river,
overflowing its banks,
threatening to flood
the town.

I would drown in this
flood, again, and again. from “Devotion is a River”

Artwork by Juniper FitzGerald

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This book is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. You may share the digital edition with anyone, print a copy for a friend, read these poems aloud, or set them to music — no permission needed, no fee. I would rather they were read than sold.

4.5″ × 6″53 pages15 poems 9 drawingsPerfect bound
Self-published in New York  ·  Truly independent
Written and drawn by actual humans