In this first edition of God in Flight reprint originally published in 2003 a young gay man wanders through the busy landscapes of touristfilled city streets alluring sexual backdrops grounds found in its gay nightlife the sheltering solitude within a safe apartment and nurturing similes and metaphors from the landscapes of his youth all in hopes to define himself his longing for the quototherquot and his spiritual desire to connect with the world around him The book begins asking quotwhat must i begin to be livingwhat country happens upon mequot And follows as this displacement fuels an anxiety in which a poetic language defines a momentum where the poet quotwakes alonethrough wanting but findshes only parts way herequot