True Enough: Poems of Love and Longing

A collection of poems on love -- romantic love, as well as familial love. It includes reminiscences of lovers lost and relationships bungled. The style of the poems range from free-form to rhyming couplets and quatrains. Some are lyrical, some are written in the language of the street. A sample:

when the sickle moon / sweeps across the dawning sky / harvesting the stars, I search among the dewdrops / for traces of you.

Alan Abrams: An art school dropout, a stoner, a wanderer, an inconstant lover. Also, an ace motorcycle mechanic, and a middling carpenter. Later in his career he was a builder and a bootleg achitect. His stories and poems have been widely published in literary journals in the US, UK, and Ireland. He now lives a tame and contemplative life in a high rise condo in Silver Spring, Maryland