The poems in Wissahickon exist for one reason: to draw our attention to a natural world that is ensouled. Trees, rock, water, fungi, animals, fish, and birds—all participate in Spirit, and all are permeated with soul-stuff. The Christian, Druidic, Tantric, and classical viewpoints, often overlapping and folded into one another in these pages, all serve one end: to help us to see, feel, and know that the world around us has awareness—even consciousness—and that all the creatures with whom we share our planet are our elder siblings, because they were here before us.