Incorporating a prize-winning chapbook, Alixa Doom’s first full-length collection of poems, A Slow Dissolve of Egrets, bears witness to the mystery and wonder of the natural world, and whether she’s writing of family or flora and fauna, her poems show her even “loving the darkness.” Fully present to both the visible and invisible, in a language radiant with rich images and sensuous as a barefoot walk through the woods, this work would serve well as an advocate for reverence for our earth.