In the Beginning and Beyond New and Selected Poems

About the Book

Somewhere in Time In a next life, for one never-ending day, I will be a Royal Monarch Butterfly. Joined with an escort of my kindred, I will ascend within a cone of light in the night sky — in soundless flight, a cortège to souls rising. When the heavens open to welcome home its children, at that moment, I will look in and glimpse the workings of the Divine. I will quickly turn away, this one glimpse, on this one day, enough for all eternity. As the heavens close and first light crowns the horizon, I will fly away, with my secret — alone, somewhere in time.

About the Author

The author’s poetry reflects his keen interest in the human condition — our origins, behaviors, relationships, ideologies, scientific inquiry, how we view our world and the universe in which we reside. He previously published four poetry collections, From Microbe to Consciousness, After the Blast, So You Want to Be a Poet, and Of Poetry and Poets (winner of the 2021 Georgia Poetry Society’s Charles Dickson Chapbook Award.) He also published a novel, And Then the Monarchs Flew Away. In 2022 he won the Federation of State Poetry Societies’ Founders First Place Award. The 100 line, $1000 prize winner, “Ginsberg,” is featured in this collection and on pages 1, 2, and 3 of the NFSPS annual anthology, Encore Prize Poems 2022.