<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Balm for the Living</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>&nbsp;offers poems of hope and celebrates our very human urge to connect with each other. These poems lift us with kestrels and cedar waxwings anchor us solidly to the earth show us how to ebb and flow with life's tides and help us to consider profound loss. Reading these poems we contemplate stars tango in Havana and celebrate life in all its beauty and mystery.</span></p>