In & Out is a collection of philosophical poems exploring the movement between outward life and inward experience.
The first section looks outward-toward people, society, conflict, support, corruption, hardship, and the patterns that shape a life. The second turns inward-toward self and ego, mystery and seeking, consciousness, desire, suffering, and release.
Blending symbolic imagery with rhythm and rhyme, The Sage Adam examines how we are shaped by the world, deceived by the mind, and called toward clearer seeing. These poems ask what binds us, what distorts us, and what remains when familiar assumptions begin to fall away.