In the quest of full understanding of the purpose of our existence

We are left with a daunting task to try to fill in the profound gap between life and death. This collection is a grand rumination on the human. Like the sword of Damocles, death hangs above our heads, and we have nothing with which to face this inevitability but the meaning we have created out of our fleeting lives.

While the poems included in this book contemplate life and death, they focus on the many facets of those which we encounter in between—joy, sorrow, lust, love, apathy, hatred, forgiveness, success, failure, faith, sin, and so on—and how the lessons we learn from them constitute that which we hold on to in continuing to live.

Life, after all, is worth living.

Jade Mark B. Capianes
Writer

In Between (are a skunk scent and a musk oil) is a poetry collection about life and death—and the great drama in between (Bro. James F. Adams, FMS, director, Champagnat Hall).