These are poems of the sea and its secrets, of the chiaroscuro of the imagination, poems of memory and retrospection, of trauma and loss, of consciousness explored and dreams transformed. This collection investigates cognition, employing nature as metaphor, exploring the psychology of the seasons as that psychology transliterates the climate of human emotions. Here you will find loneliness and the meander of rivers, poems about the mysterious heart and the even more mysterious mind: abstractions and indecisions and polar opposites. There is measured awareness in these poems, the awareness of extending limits. There is intimacy in mapping patterns of exposure: ash and salt, constellations and moonlight and rain. These are poems about music and the shape of acoustics, about estuaries and old rivers and the seas of hope and passion into which they flow.