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What remains after the years pass?
A mother singing hymns in a farmhouse kitchen. A father teaching life lessons beneath a car. A wife descending the stairs before dawn. Cornfields disappearing beneath the fog. A forgotten conversation. A child's misunderstanding. The people and places we carry with us long after the moment itself has passed.
In The World Sideways, Scott Hertzog turns his attention to family, memory, faith, marriage, humor, loss, and the quiet experiences that shape a life. Drawing from rural Pennsylvania, family history, travel, relationships, and the passage of time, these poems find meaning in moments that might otherwise slip unnoticed into the past.
Some look backward with affection. Others question what memory has preserved and what it has changed. There are poems of parents and children, husbands and wives, belief and doubt, laughter and grief. Throughout the collection, the familiar is viewed from a slightly different angle, revealing how much can be hidden inside an ordinary moment.
Reflective, nostalgic, questioning, and at times playful, The World Sideways is a collection about remembering where we've been, recognizing what we've carried with us, and seeing the everyday world anew.
Because sometimes the deepest truths aren't found in life's grand events, but in the traces they leave behind.