Blair Mathews has written four books of poetry quotRememberingquot with illustrations by Truman Lowe quotSeasonedquot with poet Donna Carnes illustrated by Laura Bouffiou Jacobson Steve Landfried and Kent Mathews quotWhispersquot and quotTime Passesquot with Zen Ink illustrations by calligrapher Kimmy Tran Mathews revels in finding connections and oppositions in the natural world A teacher of tai chi chuan Blair is fascinated by the concepts of yin and yang the interdependence of seemingly opposite forces