This collection takes the reader on a nomadic journey around the globe and into the more mysterious realms of the heart and spirit. These poems explore the joys to be found even in suffering, the resilient dignity at the heart of each human being, and the “thin places” where heaven and earth seem to meet. Based on her experiences as a “perpetual pilgrim,” the poet remembers the scents of her hometown in the Himalayas, the spicy tastes of a farm meal in China, a walk with a refugee friend in Sarajevo, and a Muslim gardener wetting his lips from a hose on a hot day during Ramadan. In all this, she probes deeper questions about the telos of life as a created being and how to carry on in life and faith in the midst of unexplainable suffering. In entering into these poems, the reader is invited to draw sustaining strength from moments of beauty and divine grace.

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Rachel E. Hicks's poems, essays, and short fiction have been published in various journals. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times, and her short story "Drink It Dry" won the 2019 Briar Cliff Review Fiction Prize. She is the assistant editor of Mars Hill Audio and the former editor of Among Worlds, a publication for global nomads. Rachel was born in the foothills of the Himalayas and spent the bookends of her childhood in India, with moves to Pakistan, Jordan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United States, and Hong Kong in between. As an adult she has lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and Chengdu, China. She currently lives with her husband in Baltimore, Maryland, and she has two adult children. Her debut poetry collection is Accumulated Lessons in Displacement.

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