It's said that poetry can be a key into our world, and in these luminous poems, Bill Mayer has unlocked a door into the Mystery, into what matters in our lives. I'm not jealous, I'm envious - what marvelous, wondrous poems, poems to be thankful for. Poem after poem in this astonishing book reveals the healing power language can have in the hands of a master poet. These are poems to keep coming back to, and as with all good writing, they reward rereading.

Joseph Stroud, Author of Of This World, New and Selected Poems

There is so much beauty here, a beauty of intimacy, which arrives in even the darkest times, a beauty that comes from going with the moment, opening eyes to it, not running from it. So many of these poems communicate an intimacy with human suffering that is courageous. The poems recount how one person might traverse even the worst shocks of life, and scale them to reach a higher vantage point, where this speaker finds ways to not only deal with life's challenges, but to turn a crisis into a means of self-transformation. It is a collection that offers a sense of a life well-lived, with pleasure at times, and with wryness at times, with heart always.

Rusty Morrison, Author of five books of poetry, most recently Beyond the Chainlink