“Oh how sweet and sad life is, and the relish with which Patti Scruggs embraces that truth creates a glow of love around each and every poem in this book. Her craft is so deft that you hardly realize she is tilting at form as if they were windmills, and never gives up on the deeper wisdom of love and loss and the way snow melts and flowers come out of the ground. She seems to have such an intimate way with nature, not the cloying sentiment of the romantic poets, but a kind of urban nod to the passing of things, the precious resurrections of poetry. This book will live in your soul forever, and you can read it with a glass of milk in one hand and a stiff shot of whiskey in the other. Either way, Patti Scruggs will wake you up with every line of her magnificent poems.”