The Old Black Cat and Other Ghosts: Songs and Stories of a Life Still Being Lived (The Witness)

The Old Black Cat and Other Ghosts is a debut poetry collection from a poet who came to writing through grief, and found it waiting for him.These fifty-two poems move through what we carry after loss: portraits of friends gone too soon, a father whose silence was its own kind of teaching, love that changed shape across thirty years, and the ordinary objects and moments that hold the dead long after they are gone. Arranged in four sections, the book moves from grief at its rawest to the quieter work of carrying it forward.The poems are plain-spoken and precise, written without performance, for anyone who has stood in a room where someone used to be and found themselves without the words for what that meant.The collection includes original oil paintings throughout.Book One of The Witness series. Read more