Magic Poet

The 42 poems in this book are ones I wrote just prior to beginning a second period of focusing on the writing of haiku. The first period of haiku writing had a great impact on my work. The severe limits of such a small form caused me to think in compressed and hence intense terms, and this intensity I believe has carried over into all my other writing in a big way, the present work included.

All the poems in Magic Poet are about magic, in one way or another. I believe that the purpose of magic is to provide a doorway into other realms, so that through gaining a clearer picture of the true nature of the universe we come to understand more fully the true nature of the world in which we live.