"Jamie K. Reaser is a rare bird, indeed: a mystic naturalist, a gifted poet, and a virtuoso guide to soul. With the Siren song of her seductive verse, this chthonic critter will grab you by the ankles and draw you down toward the ecstatic and terrifying mysteries of the one life you can call your own, your one true gift for this breaking world. She knows well this fruitful darkness by virtue of her own long sojourn below, as these astonished pages attest." -Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche and Nature and the Human Soul