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The Hunger

A Poem From The Book (Poem’s visual structure and line changes not always correct).

Then the Further Day

She saw the queen of heaven once and kept the vision in her soul No one believed what she had seen, no one believed what she heard.
-Leonard Cohen
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What It Means To Be Human

Mary

Pushing red from the absolute ends of fingers meant
for other use, ribbons of it under ocean

In the briefness between unexistence and death
she is thinking
” …so beautiful if you think it, the barnacle plumes from my hands…”

And feeling foolish for doing the one kindness that is never felt when it is offered.

On the railing the row of memory saved by her, four loose affiliations of bones,

tooth and nostril and temple dent,
alchemy and gold and mercury amalgam.

Pickets in a fence, Mary thinks, with them dented, rubbed right out between.

Cleo speaks where Mary is bleeding,

” …and wasn’t Genesis told by someone when there was no one?”

As though memories are real, a leaf on water at rest..

Love And Other Things That Hurt

A Poem From The Book (Visual structure and line changes not always correct)

Occipital, Parietal, Sphenoid, Frontal, Temporal, Ethmoid

Rain when it touches the face like the ends of swimming hair.
I do not easily forget such precision; how naturally
the eight bones of her skull came apart, how they flowed
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Poet’s Method

You may be interested in knowing how I work in writing poetry, as my method is different from a lot of other poets.
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A Remarkable Journey into the Land of Mirrors

“For some of us fishing is in the blood and so too is the need to explain the addiction. In this book author and poet Dennis Reid, a hunter with a fly rod, goes on a remarkable journey into the land of mirrors. These are stories of a fishing life, told from the inside out, by a writer who communes with the voice in the water.”

– Mark Hume, author of River of the Angry Moon and Run of the River. Click here for information D.C. Reid’s new book, Fishing for Dreams.

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