Down on All Fours

<i>Down on All Fours</i> is a presentation of a new and unique genre called the photo-poem: original poetry further enhanced with beautiful photography. Poet G. L. Bass (the Ghostbear) ventures into the wilds of Africa through the forest and woodlands of Wisconsin and across the wilds of British Columbia. Explore the place where the heart and soul connect to nature and the spirits; through pictures and poetry discover the way into the hearts and souls of wild animals. Equally at home on the Serengeti plains and in the wilds of British Columbia Bass has experienced five expeditions in Africa. Each work in this collection offers a study of the relationship between nature and man presented in the exceptional combination of words and photographs that comprise a photo-poem.<center><i><b>The Craft</b>The craft is of the spiritCarved in the boneFashioned in the magicOf a Botswana midnight dreamAn overwhelming Delta morning sunriseA seed plantedSomewhere in your heartYet behind your eyesIt grows its long rootsDeep down beyond the door-Where your soul hidesA bloom you knowThat comes aliveIn each and every African Sunrise.</i></center>