She walks alone, leaving no footprints on the sand, and her thought 'stitches the pieces of the world back together'. She steps from one word to the next and traces signs in the dust of the future. For Jeanne Benameur, who with The Step of Isis delivers her most personal work to date, Isis is a sister who advances with her along the seashore. Like Isis, poetry responds to life's call where the blue of the sky mingles with the blue of the sea. Isis, or time, is at work in our lives, like the words for which we are 'the temporary dwelling', like a waking dream, a calming thought: Isis is unity rediscovered.