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    The Sound Time Makes: Thirty-One Poems
    The Sound Time Makes: Thirty-One Poems
    The Sound Time Makes: Thirty-One Poems
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    The Sound Time Makes: Thirty-One Poems

    By David Arnold Hughes

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    A collection of poems whose fixationin time and subject matter
    ranges from the romantic to the political to the phantasmal. The
    images portrayed give a sense that years separate the events
    and emotions inspiring them. Though they are based on the
    experiences of one person still they seem to inspire in the reader
    something akin to dj vu which may occasionally cause the
    hair follicles to stand on end.

    "
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateNov 21, 2008
    ISBN9781440102790
    The Sound Time Makes: Thirty-One Poems
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    David Arnold Hughes

    David Arnold Hughes has written poetry for many years. Though he calls himself a Coffee Shop Poet he has been published in several journals including, Thorny Locust, I-70 Review, Yellow Mustard and the Downgo Sun. He has published one previous chap book: Fire Eaters and Stained Glass Women in 2005. David spent the first few years of his life in a "tar paper" house in the Arkansas Ozarks before moving to Kansas City at age 10. He has also lived briefly in San Francisco in 1969 and Oklahoma City in the mid seventies. He spent 26 years as a Firefighter including 10 as Captain of a suppression company and 4 as an instructor at the Kansas City Missouri Fire Academy before retiring in 2003. David lives with his wife of 25 years; Kathy. They have three grown children and five grandchildren.

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      The Sound Time Makes - David Arnold Hughes

      Contents

      Going Back

      Tapestry Of Time

      That Table

      Henry

      When The World Began

      Frankie On 37th St.

      Hot To The Bone

      Lisa

      Karma

      Mary Magdaline

      Convert

      State Of The Union 2005

      The Perpetrator

      Overpass

      Pig

      Girls Gone Wild

      Dysfunctional

      Professional Suicide

      Poets

      Up North On A Monday

      Busses Of Seattle

      No Words

      Ink Dreams

      Life On The Stairway Landing

      Long Way To Paradise

      The Vineyards

      Death By Dragon

      Night Of The Eclipse

      Sleepers

      Howl At The Moon

      The Alien

      Acknowledgements

      If I started thanking all the people who should be thanked I don’t know where it would end but I’d like to thank a few who helped me the most. I want to thank all my family and especially my wife Kathy for the help she provided. Thanks to all the staff and membership of The Writer’s Place in Kansas City.

      Special thanks to friends and fellow poets, Joe Cecil, Sharon Eiker, Janie Harris, Jim Miller, Victor Smith listed alphabetically and all the 4th Monday crowd.

      Going Back

      Someday, I’ll go back ,

      to highway 12 and back

      to Cronkite Beach.

      when I have no more

      wives to please

      or children left to feed.

      I’ll stop and watch

      that clear stream switch

      amid the pines,

      and eat blackberries

      where the air is clean

      and there’s no smoke

      to make me cough.

      I’ll go back too

      and feel the breeze

      cold off the sea.

      Look again for pebbles

      swept clean of sand

      and search for wounded pelicans

      amid the shattered kelp.

      Yes, and I’ll go back

      to Phoenix Lake

      to look for empty

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