Hieroglyphs of Silence in Snow Seraphim and Animals Appearing Not Only in Winter

by Red Egg

A collection of poems some of them directly sung to Christ with a tone of perplexity and dark meditation; others autobiographical on the themes of our usual suffering, and sudden disembodied joy or of the difficulty of maintaining a solitary equilibrium in a chaotic daily life of family where trite verbal molestations penetrate the body and torment it, and damage the mind. These poems offer an investigation into how to be in the world and not of it and its destructive forces; they describe how eternal life is lived as a war refuge undercover of small words that are often written in the midst of holocaust to make reappear vast creational silences of good that have been present since before the advent of man and woman and to help the poet and reader overcome the insidious motley crowd of frauds and kindly blunderers, evil eyed and blind soulful, and remake their often abused and abusive words by re-forming their new/old silences, between people, with God, with nature, and with the inner voice. This is a collection of revelations about relationships and how in each chink of the animal-angel wall of silence between us is hidden precious meaning.

105 pages, Paperback

Published March 2, 2019