A Kayak is My Church Pew

Patricia Carney lives in Cudahy, WI along the south shore of Lake Michigan, English Major at U. of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, and received a Juris Doctorate at Marquette University, member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and South Shore Poets, her poems have appeared widely throughout the mid-west region along with numerous anthologies including most recently in Bramble (Summer 2020), lit. magazine of WFOP, and first-place winner in juried ekphrastic poetry competition at Inspiration Studios, February 2020.; author of two chapbooks, BIRDBRAINS, 2016, in cooperation with member of the Audubon Society in celebration of birding and To the MUS(sic), 2018, and novel, COMMUNITY SERVICE ON PLANET WEIRDO, 2019; Her love of kayaking brought her each July, along with her extended family, spending the premier month of summer, to the northern woods of Wisconsin to kayak and explore the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage. Each trip is a spiritual journey into a unique river ecosystem first depicted on a carved