Lois Parker Edstrom, a retired nurse, is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent The Language of Tides, MoonPath Press, 2022. Her poetry has been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac and featured in American Life in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, been translated into Braille, and adapted to dance. She lives on Whidbey Island where the natural beauty of the island inspires much of her poetry.

Other poems by Lois Parker Edstrom in Verse Daily:
October 13, 2019:   "Wolf Moon" "The January moon is ripe. It spills its light..."

Books by Lois Parker Edstrom:

Other poems on the web by Lois Parker Edstrom:
"Ordinary Morning"
Two poems
Three poems
"Doing Dishes"
"Cookie Bakers"

Lois Parker Edstrom's Website.

About The Language of Tides:

"In The Language of Tides, Lois Parker Edstrom has gathered over a decade of everyday poems, seasonal poems, ekphrastic poems, poems set in the real light of small-town life, and more. And most every one joyfully intimates how ordinary moments, which are also our moments, belong to the tide in which our particular forms rise and fall. Edstrom poses the poet's wager-experience your timelessness for the price of embracing your fleetingness, as do, she suggests, the autumn leaves 'skittering along the road like brown-robed monks.'"
—Jed Myers

"Eschewing grandiloquence, Edstrom's poems take a pensive stance towards the immediate, the 'ordinary,' while quietly rooted in the rhythms of the natural world. A master of simplicity, her prosody carries a balanced, musical, clear stream of language with understated authority. 'Poetry pinned me to bliss, ' sums up the poet, in full possession of her craft."
—Lorraine Healy