Candle Fire Seen Through a Honey Jar

Frances Heiman writes about a wide variety of subjects in this book. The mother of Moses tells why she placed the baby in a basket, in another poem she writes about the gift she has given to a grown daughter; some of the poems show how child abuse is handed down from one generation to another; one poem is about a mother who has killed her child; many poems are about the beauties she finds in the everyday world. There are a great varieties of subjects that touch the heart and reveal the complexities of human nature.