Balancing curiosity, beauty, surprise, and the weight of mortality, this book’s kinship embraces multitudes: fir, owl, manatee, and pollen; sun, sea, lily, and snake; the poet’s parents, Paul and...

Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita, has six previous full-length collections, and has won the Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Arts, and the Willamette Writers' Distinguished Northwest Writer Award.