Full Description
You sit at the roadside watching the traffic of your life go by. Everything passes you, including yourself. Nothing is permanent. But poetry is an alchemy, which transforms experiences and memories and fixes them (through words and images) in their time and place, as the poet's challenge to impermanence.
Contents
Tigers; Quirigua; At Camus's grave; Happiness Lost; Sisyphus and I; By Plockton; Someday; Who's taller; Words fail us; Waiting; Poem for Jet; Fragments of loss; Going Nowhere; "Horse"; Smiling Irony; The only reality; The tool shed; Father and son; Introduction - Poem; Token grief; Emptiness; Silver blade; Funchal; Howarth; Should snow baboons melt with the snow; Mayan creation myth (adapted); Peter; Lewis Pass (NZ); "Character is fate"; Beyond this sound; Sun; The supplicant who petitions humbly; Mentor and nemesis; The weight; Apparently; Searching for certainty; The sound of Ruth; The hanged mouse; Altitude lost, I gained Spring; The Forge (An Teallach); The Sumatran Rhinoceros; The Ice Axe; Fishing (1); Fishing (2); Fishing (3); Still; Forever is a long time; Reduced; Homecoming; Waiting and hoping; The path; A memory; Invisible walls; Meconopsis; A room of human concepts;
