Dreaming Missouri

<p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>Each step we take brings us closer to a moment in our life that may change it forever. <em><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;'>Dreaming Missouri</span></em> explores the nooks and crannies of a life; each moment filled with indelible occasionally startling events. Sometimes they happen to us. Sometimes they happen to others. But life impacts life and <em>Dreaming Missouri</em> </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>uses the lens of poetry to examine </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>the ways in which our lives interconnect the way that a place you’ve never been</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> or </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>someone you’ve never met collides with you and changes who you are forever.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><br></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>From love to loss from love that struggles to survive to children who leave the nest emptied and lonely to those whose names we read about in newspapers or hear about on the </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>6</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> o’clock news this raw and throbbing collection of poems will draw you in and remind you</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> that </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>we are all vulnerable</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> and</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>susceptible to the hazards of living.</span></p>