the naked prince

What you hold in your hand may look like a chapbook but it is a magic object a cabinet of curiosities disguised as a meditation on 'the terrible and wondrous laws of leave-taking.' Inside a ballet unfolds. Thumbelina drifts through a landscape of unsuitable suitors and as secrets reveal and re-clothe themselves in shifting lights and shadows we begin to see at work a renaissance specimen logic wherein spiders' webs bruises on cherry blossoms storm-battered coral reefs and the whiskered inhabitants of ceynotes transform themselves into both marvelous new world and momento mori. This 19 poem collection confronts us with the transitory nature of shelters and hiding places the inevitable stains on the new bed the uncertainty of days to come. Hester L. Furey author of little Fish