First Among Beautiful Stars

<p><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>First Among Beautiful Stars by Emmett Wheatfall is a book of poetry. These lyrical meditations invite the reader to experience awe wonderment and a sense of oneness by proposing that what comes in darkness becomes light. Wheatfall finds sanctuary in his stargazing. And the moon shining high among the stars went / from being half-moon to a full one. In the title poem for First Among Beautiful Stars Wheatfall looks both within and to the cosmos for sanctuary considers stars everywhere even floating in his breakfast cereal. Contemplative concise and rhythmic Wheatfall's poetry pays homage to tiny creatures and galaxies and the divine of just sitting in his living room / front door open / ...my world quiet within /.</span></p>