Waiting on the Monsoons for His Desert Soul

The poems in Waiting on the Monsoons for His Desert Soul showcase a love for language and a desire to offer words that ease the agonies of vulnerability and human suffering. They are a master storyteller's collection of the elemental reconciliations of the human mind, body, and spirit. Laced throughout the poems are surprisingly unique, sometimes gritty, and often humorous instances of seemingly everything we can experience in life, from the immense pleasures to the unimaginable sorrows. Weaved throughout are peeks into Redwulf's remarkable life, including poems offering boundless wisdom resulting from stints as a circus clown, steward of a radical faerie sanctuary, Unitarian Universalist Lay-Minister, a Lokota Sundancer, and an accomplished chef and baker.

     The centerpiece to many of the poems is the relationship between different aspects inside the body when saturated with the many contradictions the world presents. The tension between Thought, Will, Heart Emotions, and the Physical Body is brilliantly on display. Additionally, each poem manages to peek into the mysterious realm between the mundane and the etherical:

In his small village,

The people were the balm of God.

The people shared their tears like manna from heaven,

so that each and every one was fed and comforted.

The many stories within this book dive deeply into the possibilities that arise from both uncertainty and hope. Again and again the reader is left to draw similarities and resolutions to their own lives. Redwulf leads us, in his way, to a hard-fought salvation. He has created a guidebook to making allies out of the limiting characteristics that keep one from manifesting their highest potential.