is a discursive coming-to-terms with loss written in the form of discrete and mostly one-sentence 'prayers'. Kristian Doyle enacts a meditative recitation on mortality and the desire to live, despite the inevitability of eventual death, while also capturing the complexity and ambiguities of the daily life. A book keenly aware of life's brevity, and death's ubiquity, is a series of odes to the transitory nature of living, and the inherent impermanence of all things.