Here it is; middling of May and on my yearly migration from Oregon to Colorado, doing all the things that compose my (writing) life. The Book of Cold Mountain, winner of the 2016 Blue Light Book Award, is hitting Amazon, Ingram, Barnes and Noble and some local and familiar haunts just as I'm doffing my waders and putting on my guiding hat for the summer. I am especially grateful to Johanna Mueller for allowing her beautiful prints to appear within these poems.To Barbara Reese