Clark writes of the balance between our desperate human need to own a place and call it home, and nature's constant battling back with infestations, tornados, an animal's unforeseen death. Told through numerous voices, these poems use space and time to allow the fantastic to take up equal residence alongside reality. This book revels in youthful discovery, in the hopes and despair of those growing old without seeming purpose, in the ever-present balance between beauty and brutality.