This fourth collection of poems explores the life of a beloved brother Chris through the eyes of his sister. We are introduced to his childhood of potential and tension, his passionate mother and disciplinarian father. We learn of the relationship between brother and sister as his years unfold, his hard working life, his understanding of and care for the marginalized, restless impulses, struggle to find personal meaning and dignity. After the sudden death of his mother Chris’s experimenting with drugs results in a battle between his desperate desire to stay clean and in control of his life and the insidious pull of the drug world with its pushers and pimps, as expressed through the anguished gaze of his sister. While addressing serious issues these poems celebrate life in all its joy, sadness and complexity.

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Toni Thomas lives in Portland, Oregon. Her poems have been published in Austria, Spain, New Zealand, Canada, England, Scotland, and Australia. In the United States her work has appeared in over fifty literary magazines, including Prairie Schooner, North Dakota Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, the Minnesota Review, Rhino, Notre Dame Review, Poetry East and more. Her work has received numerous awards and twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has published seven collections of poetry and two children's books. Her figurative clay sculptures have been shown in gallery and museum exhibits in Portland and Chicago, displayed in literary magazines, and housed in private collections in the U.S. and England. Her short documentary One of Us was shown at the Trans-ideology: Nostalgia festival in Berlin and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei. Since Toni loves to create and sits buried in reams of poems, manuscripts, clay figures and images.......she likes to imagine all of them out in the world, swaying wild as the lupine.

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