I am proud to say that the book has received amazing reviews. Thanks to everyone who has supported my work. I am currently working on another book of poems also, which I hope to get published as well. It is titled "Estranged Union" and is in the haibun style. Haibun is traditionally a Japanese style travel journal used to enspire a poem. Here is the latest haibun from the collection:
February 8, 2011
It was 2:00 a.m. and minus 11 degrees outside and I am tired and I am here at Ford Sterling again; again in the filth and the rust and the grease. Today, at 2:00 a.m., I feel no presence of heaven or hell, no reason or purpose for existence. There is only this moment and the promise of its end. I watch the moon drift in the bitter sky, like a glowing cradle in a pitch black sea, in the sour smell of cutting fluid and axles being born of it and I understand that all of this is for nothing. I understand that everything we do in this life is to simply occupy our time, for not a soul can truly explain or understand why we are here, why we exist. Man has no true purpose in the universe. We simply exist to try and keep existing; a warped loop of insanity where nothing really comes of our “progress”, just another generation to pick up where we left off.
They Sleep
They sleep –
Within the maze
Of machines
They sleep –
Through the static
And the hum
They sleep –
As time unfolds
And blankets them
Each wink slipping
Into the past, into decay
They sleep –
As if their bones
Had long been planted
They sleep -
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