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I am waiting for the rain to come to see if I can send this dream to you. The rain is here. We are on our

knees. It is a hard rain. Flood, its other face, is possible, but now we welcome the rain and we pray in

another language.

Deena Metzer is a poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer,

and medicine woman. She has taught and convened community for

many years. Story is her medicine. She is the author of many books,

including most recently, the novels La Negra y Blanca (2012 PEN

Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature), Feral;

Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems; From Grief Into Vision: A

Council; Doors: A fiction for Jazz Horn; Entering the Ghost River:

Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing; The Other Hand; What Dinah Thought,

Tree: Essays and Pieces; The Woman Who Slept With Men to Take the War Out of Them, and

Writing For Your Life.

http://deenametzger.net