Smilegiving is a body of poems and writings built around a single, simple law: what we hand to one another comes looping home. The work gathers more than thirty poems — some written decades ago, all newly tuned — into one ongoing conversation about love, giving, and the near and forgiving light already within us.

The poems move from the doorway inward: through the honest dark, into a widening, toward a quiet center, and finally back out into the world — toward you, and toward the next face you meet. Read them in any order. Start anywhere. It all happens at once.