This is a wide-ranging collection of modern free verse poems by the author of the fantasy series "Chronicles of an Age of Darkness." The 141 poems touch on topics as diverse and various as school life, city life, nature, war, death, cancer, pregnancy, breastfeeding and atomic war. Highlights of the collection include a praise poem for Saddam Hussein called "Saddam is Guilty, " and "Lumberjacked Cities, " about the slaughter of the civilian populations of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.