As you read In Everything, Birds, you will be left wondering how to take Brody. With a chaser or with a cup of chai? Brody is both one stiff drink and one morning mediation away from... Normal. In the most charming way, Brody unicycles the catwalk between a piece of passion and the passion of peace. Just like her emphatic line in What Comes Next, these poems will "ram a beehive in the office of your heart..".leaving it dripping with honey and stinging. -Hakim Bellamy, Inaugural Poet Laureate of Albuquerque