When I Go West

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>When I Go West</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> William Sheldon compiles nearly twenty-five years of poetic reflection into one august volume. These poems present snapshots of a life well-lived-working in one's garden wandering through the woods admiring the gift of an orange-pink sky-guiding readers to appreciate the simple joys and quiet beauty of life and reminding us how we are part of the same cycles as all of the natural world: birth growth and eventual decay. To Sheldon death is not something to be feared but rather a natural and necessary part of life. Ashes and compost will feed the next year's crops and purpose is assured only in the ground.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When I Go West</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> William Sheldon compiles nearly twenty-five years of poetic reflection into one august volume. These poems present snapshots of a life well-lived-working in one's garden wandering through the woods admiring the gift of an orange-pink sky-guiding readers to appreciate the simple joys and quiet beauty of life and reminding us how we are part of the same cycles as all of the natural world: birth growth and eventual decay. To Sheldon death is not something to be feared but rather a natural and necessary part of life. Ashes and compost will feed the next year's crops and purpose is assured only in the ground.</span></p>