In this intimate collection of poems, an African American writer and mother looks with compelling honesty at love, faith, family, and what it means to be a woman and an African American. Writing sometimes with an almost childlike awe of the world around her, Carol Prejean Zippert has created a work of unusual depth, balance, and beauty.

Some of the poems are written in a musical patois that reflects the author's early life in the Louisiana bayou country. Others draw on the civil rights experiences of rural Alabama. All of them celebrate the joys and struggles of life.

In Zippert's poetry, we see a world of injustice and tragedy, but the greatest of these is in how easily the fundamental concepts of peace and justice elude us. Although "Flowers should shed their bright hues / and birds be silenced likewise" for nature to be in accord with the actions of mankind, there is in Zippert's poetry an unshakable faith in the potential for our redemption.