The Animal Within is filled with poems that want to swim together, focusing on animal and human nature.
A few are ekphrastic, based on photography by Jaimie Huycke and Dennis Liddell.
Dive in and readers find a world where horses speak their minds, crawdaddies sing, and mermaids find love.
Wolves howl ahwoo at the full strawberry harvest moon in June, and birds do more than flap their wings, but rather create a voice for the oppressed.
Humans step in, pers.