Sky Leaning Toward Winter

Sky Leaning Toward Winter is both a bitter pill and the first lick of ice cream on a summer's day. In this slender volume, Niccum interweaves poems that chronicle life in its blunt-edged harshness with those that capture moments when we unexpectedly bump into beauty and grace. This is verse from an author seeking to embrace the allness of life, along with its inevitable ending, on her own terms and without the atlas of an afterlife.