In these poems Sally A. Kitt Chappell portrays a world where nature, the city and the self meet in astonishing and revealing juxtapositions. Adept in both contemporaryand traditional forms of poetry, her range is global. There is a rubai for a middle-eastern architect, a katauta for an ancient Japanese emperor and a pantoum for a columbine. Alongside are free verses celebrating tall grasss prairies, sonnets of luscious eroticism, and political riffs in current street rap. Underlying every poem is a sensibility which celebrates life while affirming its transcience.