A collection of poems examining love, self, devotion, and opening to a wider cosmos. Whimsical, meditative, rapturous, these poems are a contemporary expression of spirit.

there, wobbling on the wire

of my neighbour's rooftop

aerial

backlit against

the early summer

sky

this young magpie riffs,

delirious with the possibilities

of joy

Victor Marsh is the author of Mr Isherwood Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood and the Search for the 'Home Self'; the memoir The Boy in the Yellow Dress; and Speak Now: Australian Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage (editor).