Creek Songs (and Other Seductions): Black and White Version

When you're a child, the world is full of shiny things - arrowheads and anthills; tiny skulls and frog's eggs; gopher holes and bottle caps; snakeskins and polliwogs; strange, cool artifacts and cooler characters that come from somewhere off the grid - maybe outer space.

You can't grab them, touch them, taste them fast enough. Wonder is part of your daily routine. As you grow older, you realize the true power of shiny things. The power to distract and deflect and seduce. The power to empower transcendence. The power to rob you of yourself. The power to elicit joy and madness, hope and despair, rage and resolution.

In Creek Songs (and Other Seductions), Scot Simmons celebrates the soulful songs of youth, exploration and experience - the songs that nature and time's passage sing to us - and the lessons that we sometimes learn (sometimes not). It is an eclectic collection of poetry, short stories and remembrance that speaks eloquently of connection (and of the abiding fear of dis-connect) in a world that frequently awes, often disappoints, and always challenges us.