David W. Romtvedt

Pan’s Dance

Arts & Literature

“Pan’s Dance: New and Selected Poems by Rebecca Kylie Law focuses on human relations through a vision of the natural world. Or so it would appear but really the central subject is nature beyond human life. Birds sing throughout the book but always in the distance. Even in our ecstatically lit room, the light reflects what Law sees as the ‘deeper hues of closure.’ The soul appears not in a human figure but in a sparrow and Christ cries again, ‘It is finished.’ But all’s not lost. Regret is shaped by kindness and there is, ‘For every day, a turned stone.’”