The forty-five poems in this volume are about leaving the familiar walking into a new landscape and returning to find that the old neighborhood we left behind appears to be the same but how we see it will never be. And that changes everything. Three years ago I walked the French countryside from Paris to Chartres. I was leaving and returning at the same time leaving my current home to return to my ancestral roots. It was with great excitement that I embarked on this adventure. I would be walking