Oxpecker

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>In Oxpecker: Poetry for Picky Eaters</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Thedieck serves up country-size portions of braggadocio with humble pie for dessert. His signature stew blends poetry prose and a handful of short stories in a stock of irreverence and warped humor. He whisks in counter-truisms cynicism mirth and a generous dollop of misperceived reality. On the visceral palette Oxpecker's medley evokes a familiar taste: the loss of life's sacredness. Love and grief are two sides of the same coin. We never know when the author's shibboleths are flipping a coin or the bird. Oxpecker is a crafty little fellow that frees us of our ticks so we can emerge from the wallow of blackness and despair into the savanna of hopefulness and joy.</span></p><blockquote><br></blockquote>