From Cross Hill: Views of My Cuba by Richard Marvin Grove is a travel memoir in prose and poetry. This book includes social commentary on Cuba in the form of letters home, metaphors and true life stories: Blue Cattle Green Cattle - p. 27, - Being in the Garden - p. 35, - Compañeros - p. 38, - The Frozen Bus Ride From Havana 2006 - p. 41. Some of the travel memoir is in the form of poems: - Blown By the Breeze of Hope - p. 5, - The Phantom Hand - p. 12, - Birds of Different Varieties - p. 16, - Untethered Demise - p. 23, - From the Top of Cross Hill - p. 24, - The Diaz Garden - p. 31, - Complaints about Cuba - p. 36, - Haikuesk - p. 22, 26, 36, 50, - This Place Called Now - p. 51, - Without a Word - p. 55, - In a Wave of Black They Shattered - p. 56, - Makeshift Curlers - p. 57.