As whispers of white
shift in between fresh stillness.
The cool breeze caresses
my inward self which
releases me in wonder.
I linger and gaze
at eternal vibrations
of crystal purity.
Where tiny life forms
bustle about existence
without direction
over aquatic serenity.
A small fox squirrel
scurries up a rigid oak.
To burrow sustinence
at her hollowed heart
for days as yet not arrived.
As I turn to leave
to go about drudgery
and aquire bread for life.
I linger again
for one final brief moment
to witness nature
and capture a memory of truth.
Early Works is an exhaustive compilation of the first decade of the poems and stories of Z.B.McClure. Included are family photos, rare personal photos, photos of 1st draft manuscripts of many of his early poems. Also some biography and memoir materia
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,