We know what a poet thinks by the shape of his words. Peter Everwine's poems are his way of looking into a shadow and finding the emerging form of his concerns, his sorrow, his loss, and his hopes. Bill Kelly has continued to inhabit this landscape, a place imagined as a garden. His woodcut is a tribute to Peter's mother, Lena, to the inhabitants of this and any garden in our memory. "How It Is" is a poem that generates a vision of what poetry can be, sustaining hope that our memories are worthy of our expression. It is a place on the edge of shadows with fleeting glimpses of other lives as well.