"Reading each poem by Marion Goldstein is like taking off your shoes, wading into a clear, cold brook, and following it into the forest with complete confidence that your real destination is a personal interior you have always hoped to explore. Through the poet’s eyes, you see the natural world afresh with clarity, originality, and spiritual insight embodied in startling metaphors. With disarming gentleness, her descriptions demolish all unnatural dualisms and lead you quietly into a unifying presence that waits for you beneath each shimmering surface. Before you know it, for the reader as for the artist, poetry has become a form of prayer. - Elizabeth Michael Boyle