In "Greenwood Fires" in a manner, the author comes full circle. The collection is elegiac, part memoir in free verse, part a poetic take on modern society, rife with arresting observation, painting a palette of influences past and present, naked, bold, and skeletal, from the battery radio on a shelf, to stick fences, to Hillbilly Shakespeares, and 1940's torch songs, to coffee shop blues, to worrying about retirement. In the words of her poem, "News," this work is a "chastising liquid of bark like strength"- enduring, entrenched, and palpable.