The GATHERING is a collection of poems, images, and essays from the American artist Galen Garwood. "I am a painter, a poet, a writer only insomuch as what I do, what I make, might help widen the wings of hope, these invocations that encircle me as I dive into the wordlessness of painting or to posit thoughts about this world, this singular reality that cradles me after all these years, here, with my most devoted companion and lover, Mystery."