Ephemera: A Collection of Poems

by Eric Vance Walton

Poetry should move us, it should change us, it should glitch our brains, shift our moods to another frequency. Poetry should evoke feelings of melancholy, whimsy, it should remind us what it feels like to be in love, or cause us to think about something in a completely different way. Poetry, and all art really, is a temporary and fragile bridge between our world and a more pure and refined one. This is a world we could bring into creation if enough of us believed in it. This book is ephemera, destined to end up forgotten, lingering on some dusty shelf or tucked away in a dark attic. Yet the feelings the words evoke, they will live on in memory. I hope these words become a part of you, bubble up into your memory when you least expect them to, and make you feel a little more alive.

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JUST BEFORE THE CITY WAKES The city hasn’t quite woken and the empty streets, they don’t yet belong to us. Facades gleam in the stillness and the slices of space in between teem with bathing birds, squirrels and rabbits feasting in the golden hour. Just before the city wakes, kitchen fans begin to hum, sweet and low, spewing the scents that will summon the masses to their feet. What a gift this is to witness such a lovely freedom, and to know that nature finds a way to persist in spite of us and will be here long after our last edifice fades away.

~EVW~

Paperback

Published May 24, 2021

About the author

Eric Vance Walton is an acclaimed American poet, novelist, and blogger. Eric won a 2005 Thurber Treat Prize for his fable The Heiress and the Pea. Eric's poetry, essays, and short stories have been published widely in literary journals, magazines, and he has authored eight books.

He has taken instruction at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis where his focus was fiction, self-publishing, and poetry. He has also attended numerous writing workshops including a short fiction course taught by C. Michael Curtis, editor of The Atlantic magazine. He also has appeared on a local Twin Cities CBS affiliate WCCO television to promote his children's books.

Other credits include collaborations with Twin Cities' artists Juan T. Parker and Kristi Casey for a series of illustrated children's books and a series of handmade poetry chapbooks. He also teaches meditation classes using his meditation book The Perfect Pause, A Beginners Meditation Guide and Journal as curriculum.

Eric's most recent dystopian novel, Alarm Clock Dawn currently has a 4.9 (out of 5) star rating on Amazon.com and is the first in a trilogy of books. Book two in the series, Truth Is Stranger is set for a 2016 release date. He is currently seeking parties who are interested in developing films based on the novel series.

We invite you to visit Eric's blog (https://ericvancewalton.wordpress.com/ ) and his Facebook author page (search, Eric Vance Walton, Author) to follow his unfolding story.