The 150 tough, tender, passionate poems in this collection are for a reader wanting to relax and let the free verse wash over them.Poetry fast, loose and fun. Often people avoid poetry because they believe it must be "difficult" to be any good, or worse that they are not equipped, in whatever fashion, to decipher it. Rubbish. Read the poems in this collection easily. Don't worry about what they are "supposed" to mean. Have faith in your unique impressions of them-your individual interpretation, where the sum is greater than the words, where, every once in a while, you transcend this finite language and, if only for a moment, say "Ah!" David Alan Hall, from his introduction to Toward Higher Ground, A Collection Of Verse