OASIS is a collection of the author's favorite poems, Haibun and Haiku to date, each selected by the author from her books: New Orleans Born the author's poetic homage to her childhood family influencers and he city of New Orleans, New Orleans Between Poetry and the Blues sarcastic humor about New Orleans to the year 2000, and My Dance With Time traversing seven decades of her life with autobiographical tales about the people, eras, and circumstances that shaped her character and life. These personal tales will surely inspire any reader who seeks a deeper understanding of their own lives to remember long forgotten memories. Phyllis Parun is a deeply honest author and a quintessential example of Cocteau's dictum that "writing should be an act of love otherwise its nothing but handwriting."