Destiny Manifest by Nancy Gaffield Jonathan Mann contradictions and unknowable intentions

contradictions and unknowable intentions

Mukahang Limbu

tongues of leaves

It makes for a sequence that is searching

celebrating difficulties and achievements

Destiny Manifest by Nancy Gaffield Jonathan Mann contradictions and unknowable intentionsThe 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