Book excerpt: This book is an experience woven into poetic rhythms and scripts that bring together characters in a diverse community--the saints and sinners, the ancestors and neighbors, the celebration of family and the joys of love along with the desolation of the voiceless. The poet articulates their feelings, believing most experience can be revisioned through creative work which affirms the universal impulse toward growth, life, and movement. There is no need to fear the unknown, for it is a companion traveler through all our journeying. It's all good