Lee Michael Altman's book of poems is a philosophical meditation on life, its vicissitudes and unanswerable questions. He complements his writing with his own artwork that has an existential-humanistic influence originating in Bay Area figurative painting. His book explores the metaphor of Salt as having a "from the earth" association mixed with several meanings, that attempt an understanding of self-liberation through being in nature. He is a Stanford graduate in the Fine Arts. (22 artworks plus cover art).