This is a collection of poetry by Hayley Hammerstrom along with the photos of Brian Jax Rinaldi. Each word from Hayley Hammerstrom rings true to her very own heart: honest, beautiful, surreal, compelling—a driving force to the physics of the heart and the unexplored frontiers of the psyche. Along with Hayley's poetic thought is Brian Jax Rinaldi's photography of landscapes, abandonments, and color.

This is the first of six volumes.

"I must be as prolific in written words as I am in my spoken words, or I am destined for utter namelessness; For verbal combinations of the vowels and consonants evaporate, like rich wine reduced to a flavorful but fleeting afterthought.

When does the nonsense become noise and noise become songs?
Where comes the traction for such things?
Where are the nuances lost?"

- Hayley Hammerstrom