Living with the Doors Wide Open

As one poem in this debut collection notes: "words exhale what has been inhaled". Rebecca Leet's poetry demonstrates that she inhales both the common and the extraordinary in life - and exhales each with exquisite phrasing and uncommon insight. In a style distinct yet accessible, she brings out the elegance in everyday language. Living with the Doors Wide Open reveals a life lived lyrically - sometimes painful, sometimes playful, often mystical, always passionate and authentic. One poem finds profundity in the sad eyes of a woman running for President while another sees it in the timid tremor of a baby sparrow. Poetic lament of love and loss is sung in a forgiving voice. Throughout the collection runs a theme of the unity of all life and our opportunities for routine reverence; she posits as wordless prayer the "sigh to see the moon full round ... pause to seek the rainbow source." Living with the Doors Wide Open creates places where you find yourself - and feel better because you have.