From home, most evenings, fog veiled
my view, but I knew
        you hadn’t left me.

From home, most evenings,
fog veiled my view, but I knew
               you hadn’t left me.

Book cover titled "Tangible Terrain" by Christy Wise featuring a landscape with mountains, trees, and a body of water reflecting the sky and mountains.

The natural landscape of Tangible Terrain is 1960s northern California when rural lands were consumed by houses, streets, schools and the families living and working in those spaces. The internal landscape is that of a girl who seeks comfort in dry grassy hills, eucalyptus groves, a frog swamp, an open field and nearby Richardson Bay, as a counterbalance to ominous words unspoken inside her childhood home.