Talking to Shadows

<p>Wolves howl in the hollow of night cats yowl from crags and forests but people describe sunsets address their dead pray to what they feel may lie beyond the stars and perhaps even take note of mysterious figures lurking in alleys.</p><p>In <em>Talking to Shadows </em> his latest collection of poems Ron Houchin replies with sensitivity and wit to things noticed or sensed offering a celebration of sights sounds and objects that elicit responses through the phenomena of their being. Whether evoking the presage of a coming ice age a photo of an unknown ancestor in a family album or the presence of nature during a lone walk across a night field Houchin's poems converse with the shadows of existence that permeate a world filled with beauty and mystery.</p>