Orpheus on the Beach and an Orange Chair shares with readers a yearlong, simmering premonition of a death. Author Laraine Kentridge Lasdon believes others have sensed these small changes in the behaviors of people. Each day she would write to make the day count. "Another day gone". One day, standing on an empty beach with her beloved husband, she realized he was Orpheus; she was the tree. Laraine wants these poems to inspire awareness of death as always close by, and hopes that music and the wildness of life become part of your story. She suggests that these poems are best when read out loud.