What the air might say
By: Winston F. Bolton
Publisher: Rock Village Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Middleborough, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9781934400296
Copyright date: 2013
Work titles: Poems
Description: "What the air might say introduces a significant talent. One finds in the poetry of Winston F. Bolton the instinctual philosopher, peering out from the office window, hands in pockets, or crossing a grassy field; a mind perceptively alert, examining, reflecting, imagining. Profound and playful, it is a subtly mischievous mind of piquant sensibility directing the hand of this consummate craftsman. His poems, while very accessible, can be elliptically intriguing, implying more than has been stated. There is strong light to dark shading here; Bolton wears with equal grace the tragic and comic mask. His capacity for wonder and his gift for drawing us into the worlds he penetrates is an unforgettable journey, where '&#x2026;we shall see/The stars grow unfamiliar.'"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: A time before. From the Upper Jurassic ; The lost sounds ; White rimless moon ; A hardened green ; Penelope ; How the Gods see those who die ; The Gods ; The blessing of the birds ; The conversation ; Abraxas ; The damned spirits ; A grey dissolve ; A time before ; Indian legend ; The iceman&#x2019;s mate ; On the high plains ; I see the tip of my finger under powerful glasses ; Why I do not own a model railroad ; Little perdurable things; title: On the farther side. A cold brocade ; The morning cart ; That bull ; Finger of the Sun ; A summer life ; Some few things ; Green landscape ; Morning yields no distance ; On the father side ; Three frogs ; A straggle of pines ; The worry of rocks ; The park ; Polar bear in Stoneham Zoo ; The snowy owl ; The lions of Oran; title: Steps in the dance. As a shadow ; Epithalamium ; Don't go yet ; Swan ; The two little people ; In the hollow ; The bird that tears at love ; Last cry ; Another time ; Steps in the dance ; And night come slow ; Hill Country man ; Absence ; From a beach house across the way ; Sea change ; Getting a little lost ; Mirror ; To the new owners; title: Of shadows and wind. Might we too? ; A star&#x2019;s biography ; Leaving something out ; For Edna St. Vincent Millay ; The school children inform us of Amnesty International ; The bananas that move north ; The house of Ostogodo ; His memory ; The sparrows of Babylon ; Of shadows and wind ; The shaken wing ; Suppose ; So many questions ; Dead Brahmin ; What the air might say ; Departure ; Virginia Woolf&#x2019;s suicide ; Grey water ; A white ship sailing.