Sally Pont's lush poetry depicts the life cycle of the natural world, seen through the eyes of a long-distance runner. Pont evokes Charles Darwin to parse humanity's place within and detachment from nature; she takes us skyward in migration and underground in hibernation; she exposes the fear and joy and wonder evoked by the living and the dying all around us. Pont's writing draws from her early work in Finding their Stride, a nonfiction book about running, refines it, and offers up the rarified experience of running through an untamed world with clarity and fervor.