Running From Her Again

Running From Her Again is a contemplative collection of poetry that explores the heavy architecture of memory, the persistent nature of regret, and the quiet courage required to move forward. Through lyrical meditations on the passage of time, Samuel Ludke maps the internal landscape of a narrator who has spent a lifetime wandering the "cathedrals" of their own mistakes and forgotten dreams.The collection navigates the delicate tension between the desire to rewrite the past and the acceptance that history-built not from thunder, but from whispers-cannot be changed. Instead, the poems offer a gentle philosophy: regret need not be a jailer, but can be transformed into a teacher. By examining the "strange arithmetic of memory," where the smallest choices often hold the greatest weight, Ludke illustrates how healing is not about forgetting, but about honoring survival.