A first collection by a physician-poet who bids us accompany him to a world in which ordinary people and things are suffused with warm, and sometimes whimsical, beauty. A street-wise prisoner in a federal penitentiary is actually a poet, numbers turn out to be dreamers, and the lowly amoeba communicates on a cellular phone.

These poems are concise and accurate, yet highly evocative. By turns learned, solemn, and humorous, they evoke a wide range of human experience. Their emotional impact grows (and glows) from within, when, suddenly, the reader experiences "a gold dazzle" and feels that "our roots (are) pressing the slabs like moss . . . . "