With a Certain Wide-Eyed Look

This will be my third collection of poems. However poetry flows throughout all my volumes. To me 'poetry' is a way of communication and it is diverse overlapping prose overlapping music ... sad to publishers and those who would put creativity in a niche I feel life as a great woven tapestry of creation ... from a distance maybe distinctions may be made; up close all is a part of one flowing this way and that ... here a gentle stream here a rushing river here a great sea which itself may be calm or tempest-tossed. Yet water is water. With A Certain Wide-Eyed Look is largely composed of newer poems caught up in the mind and events of the day with some quick flash-backs to times and writings gone by. For I still am no less a product of my past even as I am recreated with each new day. People and images abide herein which have touched my life. Readers who know me possibly will know these as well; readers to whom my writings are new will possibly recognize these folk as well even if by different names. For as new as are all ideas images personalities there is a familiarity among the body of man and along the plain of existence and time which is a common thread woven deep throughout us all.