"With no captain to tell you what to do or how to feel, the following pages are yours to explore, but before you go and start treading water, I offer a few words of advice: this is not a book, it's a boat." (9)

"Nose to the ground, weaving from one side of a trail to another, the King is a born explorer—a natural hound—on the hunt for everything and, seemingly, nothing at all. I would risk sharing the cliché advice to stop and smell the flowers, but I fear that does not do his intentions justice." (39)

"In all my days coming down to these waters, all the fares that I had paid, I had never once considered that Charon was a woman; I mean, she presented as a tall, slender, hooded, a-sexual psychopomp on the best of days. What an oblivious fool I had been. Charon: m'lady of the afterlife. But where in between could she be?" (10)

"They say it is not love that causes a sunflower to follow the sun, it’s just a natural process of growth—heliotropism, or some such terse, scientific concept. But I’ve seen a sunflower turn to the east to await a sun that would never rise again, and I saw heartache, loss, and petals learning to live in the dark."

"Pictures in books,

names with no bearing

and scarcity misunderstood."

"It has been watching

through primordial eyes

from jeweled crowns to Six Nations

never wondering why

until coins marked its face

as listed, purchased, and sold;

they built houses and churches,

looking up, growing old."

Coming in 2025.

Coming in 2025.

Coming in 2026.