The collected poems of First Nations artist Simone McLeod. Simone's poetry, while breathing the ancient world view of her Anishinaabe ancestors, are explicitly placed in the present, their subject matter always profoundly personal. Her poems voice her heart and soul in a unique way, soft-spoken yet intense, filled with anguish and intense longing - at times possessed by haunting ghosts, propelled by an explosive rawness, honesty, and passion that is truly enthralling -; yet always with such eagerness and sheer lust for life that each poem seems an unfiltered snapshot in time, the very essence of what she goes through in the here and now.