Crossing Silver Creek

About the Book

Crossing Silver Creek is a collection of personal narratives that create a story cloth of poetic prose. These narratives are sewn together with the common thread that truth, beauty and goodness can be found in the most unlikely places, from the crustaceans that lurk beneath the surface of a creek to the feelings that are dredged from events long passed.
Crossing Silver Creek is an honest journey through the events of one person's life beginning with childhood and the doldrums of summer, and stopping along the way for discovery, reconciliation, and celebration. Like any journey, within the pages of this text are hidden moments of clarity, moments that guide and direct the author past some of the most difficult roadblocks. The author explores these moments and invites the reader to share in them.
Crossing Silver Creek will challenge readers to look at life and to see the truth beauty and goodness that lies therein. More than just a collection of narratives, this text is an energy that fuels the reader to see the gifts that are at hand and to celebrate that which is the everyday world.

About the Author

    In just 32 years, Jayson Duffy has worn many hats: farmhand, waiter, dockhand, collegiate running coach, teacher, husband, and father. He currently serves as a teacher in British Literature, Mythology and Sophomore Language Arts, as well as head track coach at the same school. Duffy resides in east central Wisconsin with his wife, son and whippet. Aside from a handful of poems and some marketing, this is his first major published work.