Way Down Back is a coming together of men and women facing the end of life, grief and loss, and the period of bereavement. In her work in hospice, Caroline Macdonald listens to scores of stories from patients, families, nurses, aides, social workers, chaplains, volunteers. In this first compilation of poems and poetic prose, she creates space to these many voices she has heard on the journey into hospice country. With sensitivity and grit, Macdonald connects us to our common reality of death and dying. This volume is an inspiration and an affirmation.