This first chapbook collection, its poems written from 1999-2002 and published in 2005 by Moon Journal Press, deals with the past through the varying lenses of literature, art, history, myth, fairytales,and geneaology/familial history.

"Bowen's ability to create a whole from a virtual mosaic of concrete details reminds us that we are in the hands of a poet who is also a visual artist, not to mention a researcher who is able to render times past with authenticity and precision."