In Naked Rib we begin in the Garden with Eve, the first female, and continue through the embodied experience of one woman's life. The verses speak of a childhood deeply connected to the earth and explore a yearning to live creatively without restriction. The lines of the poems lead the reader through young adulthood, motherhood and the sorrow of losing both a husband and a grown daughter to cancer. Learning to continue with gratitude and a renewed sense of this earth's beauty are the shores on which the final poems land.
