Destiny Manifest by Nancy Gaffield David Wheatley between husband and wife

between husband and wife

in a world still beset by the misery of war

with each poem accompanied by a translation into English

// Opportunity croons / across the ionosphere’

the poet tackles the problem of how a human lifespan can be both mentally and linguistically deconstructed within the very body that housed that existence in the first place

Destiny Manifest by Nancy Gaffield David Wheatley between husband and wifeThe poems in this collection were written over a 10 year period, beginning with 'Springtime in the Rockies'. This poem was sparked by an incident in September 2014 where a bowhunter shot and killed a bull moose in an area where the animals had become habituated to people. The title of the collection is based on the 19th century ideology, 'Manifest Destiny', the belief that God gave white Americans the right to expand westward across the North American