You are invited to join in a journey through as much of the human experience as is possible within the confines of this collection of poetry and find a source of comfort in this trying and uncertain time of human history. Hopefully, you will find it enlightening and stupefying, uplifting, and infuriating, funny and serious, happy and sad. And maybe it will inspire you to proceed with committing whatever ideas currently kick about in your head to paper. The poem topics are varied - humorous ( who could forget The Most Muscular Mussel); historical, where moments or people in history come alive in a way that is engaging and emotionally investing; romantic, which celebrate love as the most important and cherished facet of the human experience; contemplative, which attempt to present curious questions about the human condition or present human worries and insecurities in a relatable light; and finally an expedition into the mundane in hopes of finding within it a nice bounty of treasures.