The story of trees is pressed into their flesh, a record of invisible labor, unimaginable witnessing, and subversive resistance. In this stunning collection, Sheree Renée Thomas invites readers to wonder, to give up roots, and to grow beyond expectation. From the ethereal, echoing embrace of the Great Tree in RootKeeper, SkySeeker to the charged, living silence of the Mississippi Delta in The Cydonia Bloom, these stories and poems explore the "half-lives" that emerge from the dark, reaching for light. Journey across space and time-from the red soil of Mars, where oral histories are preserved by mechanical "Big Mamas," to the shifting sands of New Mexico, where the earth itself is reawakening to remember what we have forgotten. Roots to Touch Sky is a visceral ark of ancestral memory and speculative futures. Within these pages, the roots and the sky are the same story, a new melody that sings of both where we have been and where we are going. It is a vibrant Blossoming that builds a new narrative upon the fertile ground of imagination.