This collection of poetry, conceived in the same universe as Pennock's debut collection Bones, weaves longing, intimacy, and Anishinaabe relationalities to recentre and rethink their speaker's relationship to the living-never forgetting non-human kin. It is a look at how deep history is represented in the everyday; it also tries to answer how one person can challenge the impacts of that history. It is a reminder that Indigenous people carry the impacts of colonial history and wrestle with them constantly.