As you read the poetry of Xuleca Lounge, you step into the heart of a world like being inside a diamond with its many different facets of light. Xuleca Lounge invites you to travel like Alice into Xuleca's special wonderland through a portal which can take you on a journey into the realm of the creative process. A place to go when one needs to rest, grieve or regain a sense of wonder in the face the world. Xuleca Lounge reveals itself in the psychological world of mythology as well as within the experience of dreams and the unconscious. It can be found in nature, a cabaret show, a museum, a garden, in love or, in grief. In short, Xuleca Lounge becomes the portal space within our experience of life and loss where we can all gaze through this creative looking glass that we possess. Suffused with dramatic imagism and lyricism, Burke incorporates the magical realism of García Márquez with the rhythms and spirituality of Blake and Lorca, the terse intensity of Plath and the epiphanies of Joyce.