Before the Wind

The poems in <I>Before the Wind</I> must speak for themselves with passionate clarity:</P><P>'A shriek in black ink down a diary's page. from Passage: March 9 1936.</P><P>'Savoring the perversity of power I opened my hand. from 'Adventuring</P><P>'In that world within our world<BR>The explosion of Armageddon! from 'A Conundrum Visited.</P><P>'Oh! Greedy Race to want much more than human! from 'Speed</P><P>'Thirty-four million miles apart<BR>Through space so narrow that<BR>Your passing's like a kiss.<BR>from 'On Seeing Mars (August 27 2003)</P><P>All the elements of fine ballads free and rhymed verses sonnets and a villanelle are present in this volume. The past collides with the present in surprising images and the vivid future is both possible and probable.</P>