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A long-awaited collection from Chumash and O'odham poet and elder Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez's poems hold out their hands and welcome me home. Home to a father's lined face, hands patting dark soil, salt wind off the ocean, scent of mountains. Home to dogs living under the porch, holy starlight, and fires tended on the far shore of our dreaming, waiting for us to make that long swim to the other side. These are poems in the voice of a contemporary Chumash woman whose songs rise above genocide and reach back in time to the strength of ancestors; her vision urges us toward an inland sea filled with blossoms and seashells. Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez's work is a quiet beacon of tenderness and hope for us to follow in difficult times.--Deborah A. Miranda (Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen and Chumash), author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir This long-awaited book of poetry by Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez is a beautiful masterwork on how to take care of the light of knowledge given to her by family, by the lands and the waters. Each poem is as delicate and precise as a carved shell. Each shell-poem reminds us of the original purpose of poetry, to function as blessing songs, as memory holders, or observations for what is humbly important but might go unseen unless given a place to live in a poem. These poems will take you to the ocean's edge and allow you to listen deeply to the blue deep. They will take you to the desert and sing into you the shimmer of rain feeding the