The poems in Patricia Horn O'Brien's collection reflect on the past and impart wisdom for the future. With knowledge and compassion, and many deft turns of phrase, these poems display keen insights into the human condition.

Patricia Horn O'Brien helped in the establishment of Prison Hospice in three Connecticut prisons and facilitated poetry workshops with fellow poets at York Correctional Institution. She initiated the ongoing program, Paintings and Poetry, at Florence Griswold Museum. She is the author of a poetry collection, When Less Than Perfect is Enough. She and her son Richard Manders co-wrote and published their memoir about their adoption story, The Laughing Rabbit: A Mother, a Son and the Ties that Bind, in 2018. Pat is Poet Laureate of Old Saybrook, Connecticut.