The Sky and the Sea is a collection of poetry (and two short stories) covering a number of different styles (sonnets, villanelle, haiku, rhyming couplets, freestyle) and a number of different subjects (religion, philosophy, astronomy, biology, racism, sexism). Influences include The book of Genesis, John Donne, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Anne Sexton, Malcolm X, Isaac Azimov, Elaine Morgan, Tursiops truncatus and more.