Leaving Blue Mountains
By Author Kevin Hull

     Kevin Hull is a wonderfully talented writer. He is also founding editor of White Heron, a respected small press journal. The title of his lovely book of poems comes from his time spent living in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the life he has experienced since leaving them to live in other places. His poems, divided into sections, also seem to be divided into different times or geographical periods of his life.

     I was touched by three simple lines in the second poem, entitled "Still Light, Still Shadow." The lines come from a poem entitled "Blue Mountains:

My mind wanders
In its grooves
A flower blooms.

     For where but the stillness and peacefulness of a wandering mind does the creativity of talent bloom? So insightful is Kevin Hull that, while I enjoyed the book as a whole, I found myself wrapped in single lines, staring off into space, contemplating the truth and wisdom of his written words