This is a unique, one-of-a-kind art book created by longtime friends; poet and author, JDK Wyneken and fine art photographer, Phil McCoy.

Words or images by themselves can convey a great deal of meaning, depth of feeling, and perspective. When each reach their limits, how can words and images connect together to further illuminate the depths and breadth of the world’s beauty and its ongoing companion, the human soul? This collaborative book of verbal and visual art offers the power of intertwined words and images to take you to unique inward places of exploration and feeling. Images bursting with detail and vibrancy meet words honed not solely to describe love and connection and presence, but to remind us of all that exists within us and how much we can learn from connecting our inner experiences to the beauty of our outer worlds. Together, these can dance together in life, encouraging us to do the same.

Each poem by JDK Wyneken is paired purposefully with each image by Phil McCoy, printed on the highest quality photo paper and curated to create a unique experience; one that inspires the mind, the heart, and senses to integrate into something new that takes us beyond what we already know of love and connection, of the splendor of the natural world, and of the power of possibility for us to grow in word and deed and spirit. Or, just perhaps, it can introduce something entirely brand new. The answer for each of us, of course, lies within our own experience of these words and images and pages. It will only take a moment.

This is "Not A Blue Iris" — we invite you to find your own experience of these luminous pages.