pMelissa Hobbs supervised a team who dedicated themselves to help injured workers heal and re-enter the work world. After a career with State Compensation Insurance Fund, she returns to poetry, where she once began her writing career at Kent State University in Ohio. She is published across the U.S. Her first book brings forth pomegranates of hope, streams that flow under bankrupt cities and in fasting deserts, and wings to climb above the talons of predators. p p p pstrongEndorsements strongp p p pThese poems are a reminder that there is something to be recalled, to be cherished, behind the flickering flat screen of the workaday world-- anchored as it is in concrete and steel--with its roller coaster rides and its traffic surges and whipped up energy. Hobbs reminds us that yes, the sun can crack through clouds yes, the poetry at the heart of the world can still hold us like the petals of a tulip tree.p p--George Wallace, Writer in Residence, Walt Whitman Birthplacep p p pReading Melis