A moving, lyrical and thought-provoking collection of poetry from the author of the critically acclaimed memoir FAERY TALE: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World. "The poems in NATIVE WATER offer a hopeful vision of coping with loss. Signe Pike holds tight to the small moments that fill her memory, grounding them in the tenuous things of the world. Whether she’s describing 'a martini with extra onions sweating by the pile of junk mail' or 'the flicker of a white-tipped tail,/disappearing around a bend/in the winding, muddy trail,' Pike’s vivid imagery embodies the collection’s central paradox of loving and letting go." -Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina Poet Laureate