A collection of love poems reminiscent of Elizabeth Browning's Sonnets From the Portuguese in their stunning emotional lucidity, plus drawings and photos of porcelain handicraft by the same multi-gifted artist who died tragically of cancer in 2011. Spanning nearly thirty years the poems document how a young woman comes of age in modern society, searching for the meaning of existence, and not finding it in family, church, lovers, nowhere but in furtive glimpses of a higher order of reality during moments of creativity and simple presence to the beauty of existence. Only a small fraction of the author's total output of pastel drawings and handicraft are published here with her poetry.