Spiraling is a booklet of poetry, paper bound, good print, and it is 27 pages long. It has an attractive, color bound front and a picture of the author, Donald Coonrod, M.D. in black and white, on the back of the cover. Also on the back cover is a note from the well known poet, Leah Maines, who notes that "Donald Coonrod's poetry will captivate you with his unique voice. This is a fine collection.
Excerpt
Come into darkness
Passing sunset's gleam
Reflecting diamonds
In an amniotic membrane
Of streaming heartbests.
Nothing nourishes life more
Than ephemeral DNA
Breathing in bed--an archipelago
Sense and sound splashing
In a river where we wander,floating
In night's incomperable beauty.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
