This book of poems expresses the poet's halting awareness of the invitations the ordinary casts about on life's journey in the latter years. From an unknown beginning to a surprising return, this journey is experienced as a completion, as a descent. On the whole, it is a personal but universal expression of gratitude. The poet trembles in anticipation of what is the "last brave mountain pass" into the awe that "knifes our cells". The poet wonders if the final emptiness is also the last miracle launching us into the fullness of "the blinding light".
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