The author examines our shared experience of this mortal world: how we are 'all one breath' and - with that breath - how we must strive towards harmony. Recognising that our attitudes to other creatures - human and non-human - cause too much damage and hurt, these poems celebrate the fleeting, charged moments where, through measured and gracious encounters with other lives, we find our true selves, and bring some brief, insubstantial goodness and beauty into being.--From book flap.