John Richard Hewitt
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Bookends

Sensory Micropoetry

This is a sensory library of micropoems supported by two poems, at the beginning and at the end: the bookends for this collection. Each micropoem is a book in itself, and one hopes that the reader can pick and choose and lose the self into these microcosms of life. They are vignettes of love and loss; health and dis-ease; pain and joy yet all a part of a full spectrum of existence.

The dark has been a most instructive teacher, and I now no longer fear its lessons:

"I'm no longer afraid of the dark; I wear it like a familiar overcoat, its pockets filled with moon-crystal and the finest jasmine;" Book 41.

These short sensations are only missing one element: the reader. Thus, it is my hope that you will fall between the lines and so add your own and very personal emotional response to these small offerings.