Bright light and shadow often obscure. Whereas slant light may illuminate hidden treasures within us, others, and the world in which we live. Poetry is sometimes that slant light which provides healing balm, allows renewed vision, supplies acknowledgement of pain and loss, opens doorways, evokes wakefulness, and offers abundant measures of grace for self and all humanity.

This collection of poems offers playful and lyrical language, provocative insights into painful histories and harsh realities. This work derives from attention to nature’s small and fleeting gifts, courageous confrontation of dark moments, and mining for meaningfulness of being. These poems beckon gratitude even when hopelessness looms large. Save Yourself is an invitation to breathe deeply, smile warmly, weep generously, broach new perspectives, greet each day with eyes and hearts wide open, and especially to know hope returns often and inevitably.