"Marjorie Saiser's luminous new poems are as essential as family. They're filled with our dead, never far off, filled with all the ways loving goes right and goes wrong. Living with others, wanting always, can never be simple. These poems, crafted with great skill, with great care, conjure for us the possibility of a world 'where even the silenced can sing.' With immense generosity, this poet offers a prayer that applies to us all: 'Let what I did and failed to do/drop like a leaf from my hand.' Amen." -Peggy Shumaker, author of Toucan Nest