Peach Creek

<p>In <em>Peach Creek</em> Mark Apel author of <em>Dream Receipts</em> recalls the bugs birds bats and babbles of his local boyhood stream. <em>Peach Creek</em> is an unreliable free-verse almanac of the life we find outside a comedic compendium of beasts and an incomplete poetic bestiary of the Pineywoods of South Texas to the Arbuckles in Southern Oklahoma.</p><p><br></p><p>In these 38 poems Apel explores themes of returning to nature re-wilding the unavoidable proximity to bugs and the simple consideration of the size of Blue Jays.</p><p><br></p><p>It is a witty honest accessible and inspiring book of poetry.</p>