The Crossroad

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Life is made of little and big crossroads where decisions we make change our world. Some like leaving a loveless marriage and taking your young children to build another home in a hostile world are truly weighty and earth-shattering.... </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Crossroad</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a journey through memory that examines bold choices small moments the recurrent nature of grief and the many kinds of love that a life might hold as the poet reckons with the decisions she has made and moves into a new wholeness. -</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jeremy Paden</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>World As Sacred Burning Heart</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The poems in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Crossroad</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> explore memory loss the nature of our irredeemably human existence. Like </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Our Town</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> these poems see the timeless in the everyday. They remind us to pay attention to the details of our fleeting lives.</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Crossroad</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is one woman's journey every woman's journey.</span></p><p></p><p></p>