The author reviews "Rainbow in the Stone: Selected Poems," by Robert A. Neimeyer, showing its relevance to the field of thanatology. Most applicable to "Death Studies" readers are the poems from the "Lessons of Loss" section which express the language of loss and deep emotion. The reviewer finds the poem "Visitor" most poignant in its description of a dead mother "married still to my father's ghost," the son who dares to understand her, and intergenerational sorrow. Another poem, "True Work," provides wise counsel on how to identify, through stillness and opening to self-knowing, the path of one's own calling in life. The reviewer asks how one teaches stillness and self-recognition to one's patients and answers that sometimes it cannot be done. The reviewer notes these poems' power to convey the unsayable, and poetry's capacity to unplug the tapes of memories, especially those of traumatic loss that are expressed in habitual, dissociated recitation. Whether reading or writing them, poems can give shape to the chaos within and often in the surroundings. The reviewer states that the poems found in this book are prisms of light that emanate from an author who is attuned to his own inner world and who appears to be an active player in shaping his perceptions and the ongoing development of a coping style that is philosophical and spiritual.