Nature-based poetry with heart. "These fine, lyric poems venture into the earth's wild places while exploring the depths of the poet's heart. Family, love, loss, ritual, and the mysteries of the natural world come alive in these poems. The poet engages them fearlessly, with an open heart and keen and generous sensibility. Readers will recognize River Bed as our shared world, where the poems flow as clear, fresh, and true as mountain snowmelt." Tim McNulty, poet, essayist, and author of Olympic National Park, A Natural History