Trial By Ordeal

In a short period, Karen Mobley lost her family through death, was hit by a car, broke her leg, and experienced a number of calamities. This sequence of poems, Trial By Ordeal, explores her role as a daughter, sister, and lover as her faith is challenged. A visual artist, Mobley''s poems are rich with her artist vision and observed experience. The poems chronicle loss as she seeks awe and astonishment in nature and survives the loss of family, disability, and personal injury.