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Medicine Cache Under Lichen

Now available for pre-order at Finishing Line Press: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/medicine-cache-under-lichen-by-william-prindle/

Publication date: late June 2025

About the book

In Medicine Cache Under Lichen, author Bill Prindle engages the natural and human worlds in a spiral dance of mutual yearning, in which there is a place “to change your dread/to compassion”, and which holds hope enough to “bring that fluttering spirit back to life.” The book explores trails in which it is not too late “to find/the path of restoration/together before nightfall.” It explores the complexities of these two worlds, from the lichen’s symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae to new ways of connecting the two worlds: “If this earth is my hospice nurse/ then as I breathe, I will be hers.” The poems embrace the delight and the mystery of language, through encounters with bison and moss, loons and larvae, moving among them in search of the place “where a song once gave rise to a river.” It envisions a destination that resembles a “place of reunion that was prepared for me all these years.”