Agnes Vojta’s latest collection, Love Song to Gravity, opens with the following lines: “Follow the current. The trees / bow in reverence, touch / the water like prayers.” This opening invites the reader to enter a holy space rooted in Nature. With meditations on beauty, impermanence, human inconsequentiality, love relationships, and mortality, Vojta finds inspiration in Nature and transports the reader to sublimity. Vojta writes, “As I wipe the last traces of dirt away, I thank the tools for their labor. This is prayer.” These poems ferried me not only through Vojta’s prayers but into my own, giving me a beautiful, moving space in which to dwell.
—Lindsey Royce, author of The Book of John