Pelican

A name, a shape, a memory that drifts across time. Pelican is not a book of birds, but what carries us through silence and change.

In this evocative collection the poet navigates the inevitable tides of death, loss and aging, and the fragile beauty of nature. Each poem becomes a vessel- cradling time and the impossible distances between stars and selves. Through shifting landscapes and quite revelations: Pelican asks what do we hold onto when everything else moves? And what do we become when we finally let go?

Intimate and expansive Pelican is a meditation on the passage of time and the spaces it leaves behind- A haunting flight through the ephemeral and the eternal.

Table of contents

Pg. 1 Castle Abilene

Pg. 7 Too Long

Pg. 9 Graveyard At the Bottom of the Hill

Pg. 11 Old Enough to Know Better

Pg. 13 I Say What I Say

Pg. 14 The Age of Man

Pg. 19 Horizon

Pg. 20 A Sister Season

Pg. 21 Shelter

Pg. 23 Words to Short and Simple

Pg. 24 Pirate of Death Valley

Pg. 26 Jungle

Pg. 27 Breaking the Yoke

Pg. 28 Three

Pg. 29 Ode à une femme sauvage

Pg. 31 Dead End

Pg. 33 Slave

Pg. 35 G Man

Pg. 37 Sons of Cyrus

Pg. 39 Does The Fly Have a Soul?

Pg. 49 Leave Me Here

Pg. 50 The Lone Rider

Pg. 52 Half the Day

Pg. 53 What A Strange Device We Are In                                    (Light Musings On Time)

Pg. 59 The Texas Wood

Pg. 62 Thunder Bark

Pg. 63 Springs New Eyes

Pg. 65 Great White

Pg. 66 The Pelican of the Endure

Pg. 68 Moon Lit

Pg. 69 Valley

Pg. 70 No Perfection

Pg. 71 Instinct and Old Age

Pg. 72 Judas Horse

Pg. 73 Ow Bruce

Pg. 75 I