Legends great and legends small, great to few or maybe all,
live among us every day in their own time and their own way
sculpting life to fulfill their natural strength in nature’s will
to satisfy their present mind that often dwells where others find
a hollow nothing, an empty throne that can’t be built or bought or sold.
Legends grow and legends learn about themselves in daily turns
of silent battles in secret places, among deities of sacred spaces,
where lessons taught were then made learned, as sun and moon and tide all turned,
without acknowledgement of those who strive to meld their very souls
into an alchemy of life where from their works the wrongs are righted.
Legends grow and legends learn to do no harm and thus preserve
the sanctity of their own life among all those who daily strive
to make their way through every day in each their own small natural way
with their best efforts, without remorse, driven by life giving force,
to see their works become their view and see their efforts there renewed.
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
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