The Totem

<p>Edmond Bruneau creates another delightfully digestible collection of poems in his third book called "The Totem". This 131 page edition includes 105 poems and one short story. Deep thoughts masterful wordplay and uncanny clarity combines to make this volume of work both contemplative and compelling. Enjoy a poem or two for a quick break – or dine on the whole poetic meal in one sitting.</p><p>Individual poem titles include:</p><p>The Totem</p><p>In Our Nature</p><p>Perception is Reality</p><p>I Think</p><p>Costco Dogs</p><p>As the Crow Flies</p><p>Next Step</p><p>Pneumonia</p><p>The Easterner</p><p>The Paths We Choose</p><p>Good Old Days</p><p>No More Cats</p><p>Invisible</p><p>Debeaking</p><p>Want of a Nail</p><p>Category 4 Vacation</p><p>Sacred Heart Samuri</p><p>An Author’s Apparatus</p><p>Pray for Rain</p><p>Chameleon</p><p>The Attic</p><p>You Will Be OK</p><p>Camping Our Way to Reno</p><p>Colors of Joy</p><p>Ginger</p><p>Public Meeting</p><p>Warped Wisdom</p><p>Freedom</p><p>Bit of a Pickle</p><p>Love</p><p>Cabbages and Kings</p><p>News from the Raven Haven</p><p>Something’s Brewing</p><p>Masked Marauders</p><p>Beam Me Up</p><p>Florida Euphoria</p><p>Harvest Adieu</p><p>Chinook</p><p>Rhymes with Orange</p><p>Giving Up Smoking</p><p>An Endless Summer Day</p><p>Nine Lives</p><p>In a Drawer</p><p>Hollidaze</p><p>Pig Leather</p><p>Extravagance</p><p>Perspective</p><p>Just My Age</p><p>Cotton Candy</p><p>Sotto Mare</p><p>Pollyanna</p><p>The Kissing Disease</p><p>Coloring Outside the Lines</p><p>Flower Child</p><p>Knack of Lacking</p><p>A Novel Approach</p><p>Medium Well</p><p>Selling Like Hot Cakes</p><p>Puyallup Fair</p><p>The Little Tramp</p><p>The Bitterroot</p><p>Escape</p><p>No Place Like Oz</p><p>Small Miracles</p><p>Back Porch</p><p>Gratitude</p><p>Geometry</p><p>Learning from Regrets</p><p>Harry Truman</p><p>Once They’ve Seen Paree</p><p>The Letter</p><p>Be Gone Winter</p><p>Spring Forward</p><p>Staying in Bed</p><p>My-gration</p><p>New Year</p><p>Terra Cotta Heart</p><p>It’s Quiet Now</p><p>Purgatory</p><p>Mirror Mirror</p><p>The Great Pumpkin</p><p>Trump</p><p>Warm White Light</p><p>Homeward Bound</p><p>Hideaway</p><p>Two to Tango</p><p>Animus</p><p>Hot Water</p><p>Whisper in the Wind</p><p>Dichotomy Debris</p><p>Good Grief</p><p>Hamlet Heartbreak</p><p>Futile Fantasia</p><p>Haunted</p><p>Journey to Humus</p><p>Simba</p><p>Syzygy</p><p>Peacock</p><p>Powerless</p><p>Stroke of Luck</p><p>Slender Circumstance</p><p>Spring Fever</p><p>Mordant Memories</p><p>Ode to the Commode</p><p>A Song of Solitude</p><p> </p>