Lane Falcon’s Deep, Blue Odds traces a mother’s passage through her child’s life-threatening illness— from shock and grief to acute determination and the unexpected acceptance of a profoundly altered life. These poems often step outside of themselves, leaning on symbol and abstraction to convey the mother’s devastation, yet always returning to a stark emotional truth. Through an emergency tracheotomy, code blues, and repeated failed airway reconstructions, this collection searches urgently for meaning in the deepest fissures of life. And, in that depth, heartbreak meets breathtaking treasures, as grace turns doubt into faith, desperation into surrender, and fear into fathomless love.