These poems and prayers, accompanied by the exceptional visionary art of Jane Adams, are drawn from many years of my writings. They cover the span of my life and represent one man's search to pierce the veil of the invisible. Poetry and prayer are perhaps the two beams of a ladder, with the words as the rungs. If one is fortunate enough to climb high enough and peer through the veil at the top, perhaps only then can we leave the ladder itself behind. This is the intention of this little book - to use words to help us forget words, and then to enter the play with full delight...