She journeyed outward to lands where mourning filled her artwork. His yearning and profound mind struggles no more. The art that appeared in the wake of his death couple with the poet’s eloquent search for peace and balance. We must ask, how does a mother grieve? How does she survive? Art alone receives her sorrow and gives shape to this tragic loss. “ A Leaf in the Wind is a highly moving intertwining of visual art and poetry that artist-mother Rose Marie Prins created after the untimely death of her poet-son Jaro Majer. What kept him going down the road, is his own words, was ‘looking for gold among the pebbles,’ nuggets of optimism that he summoned so courageously at the darkest of times until he could no more.” - Garth Clark, Contemporary Art Critic In his poems one does not encounter a moment of bitterness, rather a confusion about the inaccessibility of the world he needed, an idealistic destination, and the harsher one he was required to inhabit. As a result, it is an intensely moving read, better consumed a few poems at time. Finally, there is the authenticity, every word, every phrase drawn from his heart, from pain, from hope. Jaro’s literary style is minimalist, a quiet elegance that never strives for linguistic effect. We cheer him on hoping that the next poem will deliver the peace he both seeks and needs. One is caught up in the central theme, a journey to find that space in which his over-abundance of love, that paradoxically denies him peace, can be succored. He retains a Zen-like objectivity, is never self-pitying and his meter is sonorous. Jaro’s written voice is tender but persistent. And the title is instructive for it is about a spirit buffeted by mental illness. “ A Leaf in the Wind is a mother’s act of love.
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