"National-award-winning poet Lorna Crozier's new collection of poems is peopled by the seasons and their elements, her beloved prairies, sorrow, joy, and the dead. Central to the poems are themes of revisitations of family and marriage, and the land-death that is drought. Universal, deeply moving, crowded with breathtaking imagery, these are darkly resonant poems of middle age: alert to the beauty in loss, cherishing the humanity that is whetted on that stone. This is Lorna Crozier, one of Canada's most highly celebrated poets, at the top of her form. Book jacket."--Jacket.