Us is a book of poems about love, hurt, fear (and trying to overcome it), energy, music, nature, light, and dark. It is about connection: unconscious, subconscious and waking state connectivity that to my mind and heart pervades everything and explains our love and our hurt and is our true reality. These poems were born out of sympathy for self and "other," that is for Self. They were brewed with tears and squeezed in virtual embrace or stamped with pounded fists to the soundtrack of the great musicians. Indeed, the songs often gathered the tide and tinted the hue of a choppy sea of thought and emotion. The sea is shared. It is Us. The poems are a few waves gathered and bottled in homage.