is a collection of poems exploring nature and spirit, place and time, experience and memory through the filter of the natural world. Honed by a love of photography, Allen's attention to the details of the flora and fauna around her serves as metaphor for an interior pilgrimage in many poems of this collection. Using vivid imagery of the stark, layered landscape of New Mexico, lush woodlands of Pennsylvania and other locations around the country, Allen's poetry follows her spiritual journey of healing and empowerment. She is open to learning what happens at the intersection of internal and external - where personal energy meets the energy of Nature, the interbeing of deer, oak, human, and moon - and telling about it.