Book excerpt: As the world morphs into a optic that many times appears skewed to author and poet Cherice Antoinette she often spends a lot of quiet time alone with her thoughts on matters that show change before her eyes and how to process it all. Some of it derives from pain at the root and much has to do with love. In Love's Typhoon Cherice expresses the challenges of being single, independent, and still finding herself yet settling with who becomes as a woman. Her testimony is shared as love story with self and others in poetic prose.