Verba Sequentur

Myth affirms where history must surmise If the dead could speak theyd tell us lies.Verba Sequentur is John Flaus second collection of poetry. Selected from work over many years it comprises a diverse range of material. Theres history and myth in these verses-the history is the experience of a full life well lived coming through in the depth and reach of the allusions and the myth is present in what the poet does with this life-experience. Aldous Huxley once said something like: Experience is not what happens to you: it is what you do with what happens to you. And Flaus turns his experience-as an actor as a lover as a lecturer as many many things-to good account in many of these poems.