Mariana Ruybalid is as much a story-teller as she is a poet. She brings us inside her internal experience of disability so intensely you wince when she hurts, laugh when she laughs. Not many poetry books are "page-turners" but Ruybalid's lucid book flowed through my hands like water. I feel like a got a tour of someone else's soul. Halfway through I couldn't bear it; yet I couldn't put it down. I come out the other side with a sense of poignancy and wisdom I could not have received otherwise. Thank you, Mariana Ruybalid, for enriching my life. I can 't recommend a book more strongly.