What moments define a lifetime? What does one carry with one to the threshold of death? Memories make us who we are.

Those milliseconds when life is clarified or appears intensely beautiful or profoundly personal define and shape our identity. In Grace of Falling Stars, Bruce Meyer tells the story of his own life in poems that are intimate.

The poems take the reader to the defining instants of perception where time stands still, where the heart and the head are one and at peace with themselves.

And like falling stars, these brief insights are over almost as they are recognized but leave a lasting impact on the reader. The poems reveal not only the grace of falling stars in their momentary brightness but the people, places, and loves they illumine before they fade away.