Veil – Love Poems from across the Threshold

This is a remarkable and touching short volume of poems ostensibly communicated by Morton Felix to his daughter beginning three weeks after his death and intended to comfort her grieving mother, Susan, his wife of 56 years. This followed a spiritual transformation during his dying process, which led to the project written up in the book reviewed immediately below. He says that he will be returning sooner than he thought to that fragrant earth of sense and time. He refers to his wife's light shining, but also to her tattered tears. He promises that she will join him one day in this starry paradise, where souls are disrobed and as naked as love while now there is a thick sheet of glass separating them. Also that she will discover, 'as all is unveiled that none of us is more then this ancestral transparency…there is no end, but also no beginnings, so do not worry, we will dance beneath the tents with the sails of time between us.' There are many such lyrical and evocative passages as well as hints all transformation.