Voltaire once wrote, Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers , and in conclusions delusions and musings on time, fierce doubt and wonder run rampant. Christian Scott Green, through use of contrast - nature/technology, science/religion, mankind/the individual, childhood/old age, the flourish/atrophy of relationships - earnestly examines both the beauty and quiet pain of the human condition. He keeps the reader engaged with a strong rhythmic sensibility, informed by his life as a drummer, and by juxtaposing brief, stark, poems with longer, descriptive works. In confronting his own struggles, Christian demonstrates that those experiences we share, though may rarely discuss, far outweigh our differences, and that art truly is a universal language.