The winds that bore your first vowels must have known,You were born for this...These are poems of innocence and repentance, of ecstasy and vocation. Against a rich natural and cultural backdrop, the poems explore the costs and rewards of transcendence. Drawing above all on the solace and inspiration of beauty, this collection issues a call to creative stewardship - of life, of land, and of language. That words may breathe now on the open pageThough lips have closed...Daniel Gustafsson, born in Sweden in 1983, is a bi-lingual poet and philosopher with a PhD from the University of York. He works in secondary education and divides his time between Yorkshire and his native land. www.poetgustafsson.wordpress.com