Though personal in tone, these meditative poems reach insistently outward to the natural and social worlds, moving beyond today's confessionalism. This title explores the tenuousness of each individual moment while affirming a necessary - if difficult - existence of the free spirit.

This is an elegiac book, mourning losses from the personal to the planetary. Though personal in tone, these graceful, meditative poems reach insistently outward to the natural and social worlds, moving beyond today's confessionalism.