Destiny Manifest by Nancy Gaffield David Wheatley from abstraction in visual art

from abstraction in visual art to atonality in music

between husband and wife

Perhaps you’ll want to annoy your family by reading them out

in a world still beset by the misery of war

Destiny Manifest by Nancy Gaffield David Wheatley from abstraction in visual artThe 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