Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy novels, though she began her career as a poet, and insisted on being referred to as such. In this clarifying and sublime collection--written shortly before her death in 2018--Le Guin immerses herself in the natural world, ruminating on the mysteries of dying, and considering the simple, redemptive lessons of the earth. With skillful attention to silence, and form that mirrors life's rifts and repetitions--the cycle of nourishing rain, the ebb of tides, waking and dreaming--Le Guin's verse is simultaneously grounded in honesty and adrift in imagination. Though she is unflinching in the face of death and in the reality of growing older, she receives them with warm reverence, and with the peace that results from not completely understanding what they mean. Redolent of scenes from her home in the Pacific Northwest, myths, history, and nursery rhymes, Le Guin bookends a long, daring, and prolific career: "Yet still when fog from the river rises/silent and unforeseen and the bright morning is all gone/into the uncreated, I rejoice."