by Patrick Russell Gibbons

36 pages (1996)

trade paper, saddle-stitched

ISBN 0-9637704-5-4

$5.00

"The poems speak to each other, often from contrary backgrounds, and live comfortably together in the diversity of my past. Hence, a retired sunbather is just as deluded as a crazed homeless man warming himself on a subway grate. An aging World War II veteran rolling a cigarette mirrors a bodybuilder skating along the boardwalk at South Beach. Dandelions and pigeons mock the common obsessions of humans. A canyon and a river breathe a spiritualism into the matter comprising nature." 

Two Seminarians • Sex Predator • Crack Up • Purgatory Airlines Flight 101 • Ash Wednesday • Dead Cherry Tree • Monarch of Abandoned Space • Sunbather in the Dark • South Beach Vision • Rolling a Cigarette • Defiant Dandelions • Memorial Day • A Pigeon on a Traffic Jam • Qurrayah Beach at Night • Shamaal • Cyclone • Tropical Depression • On a Volume of Horace's Odes • Lone Electron • Stranger in a Menthol Cloud • Mary's, Naturally • At the Edge • Grand Canyon Echoes • Seeker