Cross Roads

Cross Roads gathers verse written in an era when poetry still dared to whisper rather than shout. Margaret E. Sangster was among the most beloved poets of her time, and this collection reveals why: her lines carry the particular grace of someone who understood that true wisdom often lives in quiet places. The book opens with candlelit warmth, a sense of intimacy established between poet and reader that feels almost like a letter from an old friend. Here are poems about wood magic and watering horses, about the particular slant of light through autumn trees and the ache of loving someone far away. Sangster's pastoral impulse is not escapism but a form of attention, a insistence that the small things matter: morning, memory, the world beyond the city window. These are verses that ask you to slow down, to notice what gets lost in the hurry of modern life. For readers who find themselves exhausted by noise, Cross Roads offers a rare commodity: stillness that does not feel like emptiness.