Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back Canadian poet and photographer Katharine Weinmann with two heartfelt elegiac poems. “Trilogy of Loss, and Love for Annie” memorializes her beloved dog who passed over the rainbow bridge last year. “That you loved to be with me and let me love you/ unabashedly cuts deep to the core. Empty places/ in my heart and home where I imagine you to lie.” Pets are staunch companions, their connection to us all the more visceral and palpable because it is wordless and immediate. Katharine reminds us that grief is a result of love. In “The Grandfather I Never Knew,” Katharine recounts meeting her mother’s father in a dream. “In dreamtime for the first time,/ I felt the truth of your absence./ A deep well of sorrow,/ as quiet tears became/ a barely held back torrent.” Surreal and mysterious as such encounters usually are, it concludes with a bit of wisdom from beyond as she wakes to consciousness. Katharine’s sensitive openness creates an atmosphere which encourages the reader to open themselves to possibility and synchronicity.
Read Katharine’s intuitive poetry in Synkroniciti’s “Family” issue, available here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Katharine Weinmann is a seeker whose reading of poets and mystics shapes the container from which her words and images emerge, revealing beauty in her imperfect, sometimes broken, mostly well-lived and much loved life. An intrepid traveler and internationally published poet and photographer, she blogs at A Wabi Sabi Life. Katharine lives with her husband on the Canadian prairies where they await the arrival of “Walker,” their newest English Setter.