In Town of Secrets, Katarzyna Boczon-Dobbie uses the essential elements of poetry, like an Alchemist, to forge a poetic gold that is as brilliant as it is durable. She populates this town, as a metaphor for the soul, with memories and experience, vision and breath. Each poem contains a sacred stillness that assuages the reader into a deeply contemplative state. The simple imagery creates something more than the sum of its parts in its vividness and profundity.