Cobblestone Drive

Others are built from the things we survived.In The Cobblestone Drive: Scribblings for the Broken, J.W. Hale takes readers on an intensely personal journey through childhood, love, anger, loneliness, loss, faith, and the stubborn persistence of hope.Moving between narrative poetry, reflection, dark humor, and raw confession, J.W. Hale explores the moments that remain with us long after we thought we had left them behind. Childhood summers and old fishing holes share these pages with trains, forgotten roads, broken relationships, family wounds, death, and the quiet places where a person is left alone with memory.At times painful, at times strange, and occasionally playful, these poems do not pretend that life follows a straight road. Instead, they wander through the emotional landscape of a man looking backward while still trying to understand the road ahead.The Cobblestone Drive is a collection for anyone who has loved, lost, remembered, regretted, endured, and somehow kept moving.Because sometimes the destination matters less than the road that brought us home.