256 Zones of Gray

by Smith, Rob

• ISBN13: 9781933964164
• ISBN10: 1933964162
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Bird Dog Pub

Summary

Poetry. Rob Smith's TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX ZONES OF GRAY meanders through life's path, arcing up and reminiscing down with great detail to the presence of nature, memory, relationships, and spirituality. This collection is a meditation that warms and transfixes the sixth sense. Smith's words give hope, "a lighted window on the edge of color"-Laura Bentley. "Inspired by nature in his thoughtful and plain-spoken poems, Rob Smith reminisces and reflects on life, death, and the passage of time"-Laura Bentley. Rob Smith won the Robert Frost Poetry Award for his poem "Catbird" and subsequently published his first collection of poetry, Night Voices. He writes novels, short stories, literary criticism, and nonfiction, and is editor and publisher of Drinian Press in Ohio.

Table of Contents

Earth
256 Zones of Gray	p. 11
Catbird	p. 12
Burial Ground	p. 13
Edge of Color	p. 14
Washburn Ditch	p. 15
Xanthophyll, Anthocyanin, and Carotene	p. 16
My Last Walk	p. 17
Groundhog	p. 18
It's Colder This Morning	p. 19
Along the Shore	p. 20
Winter is So Much Softer	p. 21
Wakefield	p. 22
Not Like Jesus	p. 23
Sky
Last Time I Spoke with the Moon	p. 27
Under Sail	p. 28
My Sky	p. 29
Morning	p. 30
Flight	p. 31
The Turning	p. 32
Cat on the Ice	p. 33
17 December 1903	p. 34
Red Huffy	p. 35
Time
Black Hole	p. 39
Watching	p. 40
Night Train	p. 41
Remembering Clocks	p. 42
Time	p. 43
I Remember Her Much Taller	p. 44
Fear	p. 46
Pittsburgh	p. 48
No Time for Angst	p. 49
Barber Shopping	p. 50
The Bonapartes Landed	p. 51
Last Dance	p. 52
Patterns
Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris	p. 55
Mandala	p. 56
New Tomorrow?	p. 57
I Didn't Know You	p. 58
The Elements of the Universe	p. 59
Persephone Rides on Laughter	p. 60
More Tests	p. 61
Without Purpose	p. 62
Pantoum of Time	p. 63
Fingemail Moon	p. 64
Eucharist	p. 65
Covenant with the Dead	p. 66
Mazes	p. 67
The Night Seemed Longer	p. 68
Hope Comes in a Wooden Box	p. 69
Love
Town Gossip	p. 73
Darfur	p. 74
No Forgiveness	p. 75
Alzheimer	p. 76
Escape to Poetry	p. 77
Milkweed	p. 78
Beyond Horizons	p. 79
Quiet Time	p. 80
Truth Aloud	p. 81
She Asked Me What I Thought	p. 82
If I Scare You	p. 83
If We Were Children	p. 84
Reflections
A Long-time Affair	p. 87
Funeral Arrangements	p. 91
Personal Effects	p. 92
No Road Home	p. 93
A Flight of Imagination	p. 94
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