A collection of 157 poems and 10 short stories written from February 2009 to May 2009. The topics include nature, hypocrisy, love, nuclear weapons, holocaust, solar flares, hysteria, wizards, McCarthyism and the Red Scare, terrorism, Christianity, paganism, death, triumph, motherhood, optimism, Alzheimer's, Adam and Eve, Atlantis, moralists, Prohibition, modern vanity, aging, consuming insects, vengeful spiders, possession, and compassion.