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Product Description Light's Reservoir, a lovely sequel to Rebecca Lillys collection of butterfly haiku, A Prism of Wings, is another triumph, combining philosophy, botany, and poetry in ways that allow us to share the author's emotional and intellectual joy in the wildflowers we all too often take for granted or know little about. This is a book which will open your heart and your mind. And once again the full-color plates are a glorious addition. The end-notes are fascinating as well, another reason to relish Light's Reservoir. Review What has been said about Rebecca Lilly's earlier book, A Prism of Wings, is at least as true of this one. As Robert Morgan noted, "One of the special delights... is the way Rebecca Lilly combines scientific knowledge…of the natural world with precise observation,vivid language, and startling connections. Her haiku are flashes of perception, transforming verbal prisms that give us new angles of vision. She sees the large in the small, the timeless in a moment. These poems are instants of insight, windows of wonder. This is a particularly exciting collection." --Robert Morgan A poetry collection that considers the splendor and significance of wildflowers. Lilly's previous book ( A Prism of Wings, 2013) was a collection of haiku on butterflies. Here, the poet focuses on wildflowers with the same attention to detail that made her last collection a success. Lilly has also published additional books of poetry and two books on philosophy. In the introduction, she explains that she suffers from depression, but in wildflowers, she was able to find a consistent, lovely thing to look for everywhere, to focus and ruminate on, in order to find beauty in life and some sense of peace. This explanation enhances her work. The collection includes more than 100 haiku, each marked with a number in a sketched wildflower. In a few words, Lilly captures the minute details and extraordinarine