Foreword

Warning: the book in your hands will break your heart

it is symbolic

tragedy, power, truth
is many things

it is wonderful poetry
cartography that maps
a unexplored piece of experience–
personally familiar

it is a memorial
a magical act

it is all these things

Begin at the beginning
go on,
till you reach the end
then stop

something will tug
at the edge of your mind/heart

let your imagination
fill in these poems,
as I did

you will have your own
again