Color

The poems in this book reflect the deepest longings of the human heart. They celebrate and explore love and loss, life and lust, expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love and grief and longings of all kinds, from the erotic to the seemingly divine to love of country, to the love of true friendship. From the ethereal to the everyday, from the simple to the complex, these poems encompass what it is to be truly human; especially in the relationship to and with the lover – that one person that can capture a heart or destroy it.

Green, The Other Monster, speaks, of course, of jealousy, that green-eyed monster that can afflict even the best of relationships. Even the most secure person can misinterpret an innocent glance, a word, a call, and bring forth emotions of envy, resentment, suspicion, and distrust. Feelings, misplaced or not, that can destroy even the strongest relationship. As in its companion volume, Red, Lust is a Monster, these poems speak to the human condition, to the heart's longings: dark and deep, bright and open, and, sometimes, to bitterness and soft hatred. Such feelings convey the basic human emotions and experience of love and loss, life and lust, in such a way that even sorrow, grief, and despair can sometimes be felt as an ecstatic experience.