Jennifer Kidney's "Road Work Ahead" is a meditation on the many roads taken: of learning to drive at 30; of dodging Oklahoma's potholes and sour lovers; of losing her way in a back yard filled with the ghost of a beloved Sheltie and a dead neighbor. Kidney drives Oklahoma's red dirt roads and turnpikes always observing the warning signs that reveal "the sweet stinging memory of all your our] lost loves." Take the journey with her, again and again. -LeAnne Howe, author of Shell Shaker and Evidence of Red