Sarah Sutro's Natural Wonders immerses the reader in nature's intense beauty, serenity and uniqueness. Through focused awareness, and a poet's eye, the poems guide the reader to seeing up close. The poems move through a year, tempered by the seasons of sun, rain, snow, darkness as the basis of human passages. Encounters with natural processes and unlikely world situations drive questions about the dramatic nature of things. How to live in the world as we know it, rife with war and conflict and pain? Quietly these poems lead to an understanding of the gifts entwined with nature that are uncalculated, immediate, visual, and all-encompassing. The imagery and language in the poems find a lasting immanence in nature, and suggest the wisdom of seeing and reflecting on our relationship to the world and its layers of being.