In this book of poems, Marty Gervais writes about the ordinary and the commonplace, but how the small epiphanies in our lives make us look again at this world around us. He writes about sons who play hockey, black cats, the Cubans in an all night diner in Miami, the rural landscape of south-western Ontario, the cafes of Paris, travelling to Iraq, the streets of Detroit and the days and nights spent in a hospital ward.