What remains after the years pass?

A mother singing hymns in a farmhouse kitchen. A father teaching life lessons beneath a car. A wife descending the stairs before dawn. Cornfields shrouded in fog. A forgotten conversation. A child's misunderstanding. The quiet rituals that become a life.

In The World Sideways, Scott Hertzog explores the moments that often go unnoticed—the ordinary encounters that leave lasting imprints on who we become. Drawing from rural Pennsylvania, family history, faith, marriage, travel, humor, and loss, these poems transform familiar landscapes into places of discovery.

Reflective, nostalgic, questioning, and hopeful, this collection invites readers to pause, look again, and see the world from a different angle.

Because sometimes the deepest truths are found not in life's grand events, but in the traces they leave behind.

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