Ada Limón is such an incredible poet. I really enjoy her works, although this collection wasn't my favorite. It was still incredibly strong and visual. I appriciate that she weaves the natural world into her poems along with a sense of life and wonder, but also sadness and grief.

Some of my favorites:

The entire poem "The Quiet Machine". I really related to this as a quiet person who enjoys my silence.

The entire poem "State Bird". This made me tear up thinking about where I am living now and where I want to end up living.

This line from the poem "The Whale & The Waltz Inside Of It": "Imagine a woman at the edge, at the border/of the universe waving without an idea/of where to wave, into emptiness, into a bliss?". This line gave me flashbacks to standing along the California coast, looking out into the Pacific, daydreaming.