Labyrinth of Green

Labyrinth of Green is a collection of poetry and photography by Diana Hayes. Her poems and photographs share maps and narratives for the inner journey, a labyrinth that leads to wholeness, to our centre and back again out into the world. Here, both beauty and the forces of nature are revealed in delight, in grief, and ultimately through awakening. Each of the book's five sections explores aspects of this process. The reader enters a West Coast rainforest and walks toward the inner sanctum of the wetlands. Childhood and adolescence and the lessons of the underworld will be encountered. Ancestors provide solace and wisdom. The well of grief is visited. Dreamscapes of near-sleep, offering healing -- as a witness, as a seer, as sage -- conclude the final section,"where sleep's wild embrace does not prepare you."