The Heart Is a Canvas
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The Heart Is a Canvas — selected poems by Parvene Michaels
Front Matter
Dedication
iii
Acknowledgments
iv
Table of Contents
v
Preface
ix
Poems
The Heart Is a Canvas
1
Don't Prune Me
3
The Dream Box
5
Ghosts
7
Inner Garden
9
In Search Of
11
Dying Star
13
Naked Nights
15
Scars
17
God's Acre
19
Self-Theater
21
Crippled Heart
23
Becoming
25
Dream Broker
27
Pages
29
From Now On
31
Indifference
33
Troubled Angel
35
The Touch of a Stranger
37
Eclipse
39
Partner
41
The Pain of Choice
43
Tarnished
45
Teachers
47
Above All
49
New Wings
51
Transported
53
In Need of Nothing
55
Inner Prayer
57
Vines of Unmet Needs
59
Partner in Flight
61
Each New Love
63
Intersection
65
The Tides of My Heart
67
Childlike Abandon
69
The Crossing of Another Soul
71
No Greater Distance
69
Each Encounter
71
Unknowable
73
Why Is It?
73
True Love's Arrival
77
The Soul's Timing
79
Abandonment's Release
81
Deep Embrace
81
Vines of Unmet Needs (II)
81
Imaginary Love
83
Love's Fragile Dance
85
Love's Return
87
Imperfect Endings
89
In Her Shadow
91
Each Encounter (II)
93
Unknowable (II)
95
Dark Lord
97
Sweet Addiction
99
Fantasy to Flesh
101
True Love's Arrival (II)
103
Abandonment's Release (II)
✎ text
103
Eclipse (II)
✎ text
107
My Father's Daughter
✎ text
109
Spark of Genius
✎ text
111
The Longest Mile
✎ text
113
Finding Me
✎ text
115
Paths of Passion
✎ text
117
A Season of Peace
✎ text
119
The Open Door
✎ text
121
Shadow Voice
✎ text
123
Awakening
✎ text
123
The Chase
✎ text
125
The Heart of a Child
✎ text
127
Army of Light
131
Union
133
Keys to the Kingdom
135