This is the third book of poetry by Carol Townsend. Her poems have appeared in the journals Voices de la Luna, Sow's Ear, The Healing Muse, The Cafe Review, and the Elm Leaves Journal, as well as in the Buffalo News. She has been an invited reader in The Gray Hair, Rooftop, Wordflight, Red Door, Literary Cafe Series, A Musical Feast, The Buffalo Corner Reading Series, and the Emanuel Fried Drop Hammer Student Reading Series. One of her poems was selected for the public art project, BuffLit: On the Move, sponsored by Just Buffalo Literary Center and the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority. Her chapbook, A Cinder In My Knee, was published in 2016 and her full length book, The Color of Shadows, in 2019, both by Buffalo Arts Publishing.