"This luminous collection offers poems of immediacy and depth. With a disarming naturalness that belies the depth of knowledge of poetic tradition, of the world, and of Zen that this poet clearly possesses...Reading them I found myself surprised, delighted, and grateful."

-Rafe Martin, author of Rough-Faced Girl

"Buddha said, 'If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole lives would change.' In a commoner's prayer Joan White leads us toward this kind of revelation. Through her patient, contemplative inquiry we are taken from the whorl of a 6,000-year-old shell to the physical pain of the global pandemic-from the bud of a rhododendron to the origin of humankind-from a button on a tattered coat to the heart of a family. With tender observations and diligent curiosity, White's poems speak to the balance between patience and urgency so critical to our times. These poems of desire and awe guide us to the miracle of deep connection in the vast universe of everyday life."

-Alison Prine, author of Loss and Its Antonym