from the simple prayer of "each day" to the naked honesty of "life after you", artist nicolle mcqueen has mined the caverns of a life and found her own precious jewels. seeking to bare herself body and soul, and to share such candid moments, nicolle has put together this collection of simple yet heartfelt poetry. "do you love me" speaks with the voice of a child with a grade school crush; "hook a sista up" explodes with street-corner grit as it sets the conditions for a very adult relationship. there is yearning and pleading, joy and pain, maturity and childishness to be found in these collected works, bound together by one artist's journey from major metropolitan areas to country townships, from marriage to divorce, from the single life to motherhood, from ignorance to understanding, from the deepest love to the deepest betrayal, to the heat of a sexual encounter so blistering that it leaps off the pages and into your most fevered dreams. "i like, i love, i want..." is one artist's