A Menagerie of writing that elaborates the human spirit through the community formed around art. A Collection of poetry, prose, political essay, plays and short stories. Includes such writers as Nadine Sellers, Rob Plath and Roy C. Booth.
A Menagerie of writing that elaborates the human spirit through the community formed around art. A Collection of poetry, prose, political essay, plays and short stories. Includes such writers as Nadine Sellers, Rob Plath and Roy C. Booth.
Excerpt
Thalassa
Thalassa, mistress of Neptune,
rolling liquid of moods,
Sea that frightens little feet,
and squeezes throats at high tide,
Sea that calls the young moon
in response to small desires,
Ocean grey, ocean green,
that spits on the past
in large angry waves,
throwing man and matter back
to shores of decay,
Troubled bodies immerse their pain
in waters at large
and wars become submerged
in maelstroms beyond science
where mystery remains
our chemistries are uncovered
and merge into the sea
of essential lymph
The primal home calls in magnetic waves
to becalm the plasma of universal fear
The rhythm of fluid energy caresses
the saline semen of neutrality.
rushes the viscous underbelly of tired souls,
in the saline serum of our return,
our blood, magnified
in homogenous minerality
Harmony, diluted in the currents
to the soft white sands of rest,
ever drawn to the shores by dreams,
we return to the sleep
of mother warm,
mother Thalassa
Dear readers, this is my third book of poems, and inside are a special collection of what have turned out to be not only MY personal favorites, but also the favorites of many of YOU. Some of these have never been available in print before...
