This first collection of poems, presented in double decades, reflects family issues, social upheavals, and experiences of living wild in northern New Mexico. As an expat from the West Coast, so-called hippies (desperadoes according to the late R. C. Gorman) are presented as characters worthy of note in the beauty of natural settings along with a variety of ancieños and others. This work is vivid, visual and sensual, sometimes ragingly political, and as easily accessible as smoothly written stories. Merimée Moffitt's voice has the cadence and economy of contemporary verse with the power and angst of a woman breaking the rules by saying what others wouldn't dare. Merimée's literary influences are clearly the women poets and writers of the fifties who rocked the canon by using women's issues as fodder for good poetry. The book contains a broad range of styles, tones, themes, and attitudes. From free verse to villenelles,