Animals: Poems

In ANIMALS,

the animals are to be found inside each poem. Current research on animals like domesticated animals is finding out that what many animal owners know, that Dogs, Cats, even Horses are much more complicated that previously understood. The ongoing research on the wilder animals like Bison, Wolves, Geese, even the Big Cats like Jaguars indicated their level of intelligence and range of personality is incredible. New information is arriving in the white papers every year, and gives the rest of us new insight as to the world of animals that we simply didn’t have empirical evidence for only a few decades ago. It is also rare to find a book of poems including them.

The poetry in ANIMALS, the found animals in the verse are characters. Their presence in the individual poems serves to highlight the contexts and metaphors found in the pieces.