Description
Poetry
Written by Tim Nolan
In these lean, direct poems Tim Nolan seeks candidly and humbly for a true sense of self and a solid place to stand in this busy, often superficial, detail-laden, rushing world, where we are “going nowhere at great speed.” As he explores what it means to be alive, he says that he doesn’t know for sure what it all means or who we really are. But ultimately he responds to these basic human questions by celebrating the fragile, incremental moments when he connects with a fly, a roast chicken, an old cat, a pair of shoes, and “The wind, the new kind of wind.” He revels in memories of a Boston hotel, a cafe, the whistle of a man who wants to be a bird, and, most movingly, the songs of his marriage bed and his dying mother, as well as the music of his own voice, full of love and grief.
—Freya Manfred, Author of Speak, Mother
Naomi Richter –
Lovely, heartfelt poems about everything in life, from the simple: the weather, a roast chicken, to the profound: weddings vs funerals and the challenges of growing older. Towards the middle, there is a section of poems concerning the eventual passing away of the writer’s mother, which touched my heart in a very personal way. These are very easy to read yet poignant poems.