Jane Graham George writes of the natural world—flowers, dunes, paddocks, oceans and lakes—and the creatures that populate this world and inspire us with their song, color and, in some cases, eccentricity She writes, too, of earthquakes and peace (and its opposite), of destruction both natural and man-made. This collection also includes poems based on her experiences traveling via train daily to Wellington on the Kapiti Line for over a year, the people she observed, the renegade sheep and mist outside the windows, and the altered states train travel can foster.

Jane Graham George was born in 1951 in Fort Benning, Georgia. She earned a B.A. in English from the University of Minnesota and an M.A. in English from UCLA and later a Master's in Library Science from Dominican University/St. Catherine University. Her book Aotearoa: New Zealand Poems was published by Red Dragonfly Press in 1999, and her poems have appeared elsewhere in Poetry Australia, Words Before That, Spirit Horse, The Aurorean, and County Lines: 87 Minnesota Counties, 130 Minnesota Poets. She has lived in California and Minnesota, and currently lives in New Zealand.