paperback.
words & art by mike mahoney.
141 pgs.
 
Red Bearded & Starry Eyed collects a year of poems writ between February 2015 & February 2016.

Poems collected from silver-lined thoughts, emergent understandings & lessons learned.  poems as prayers & psalms, postcards, polaroids, poetic notes & reminders.  poems as daydreams & wonderings.  poems as migrations & poems as wanderings.  poems as realizations, crystallizations, transmutations & magic intentions.  poems as odes and elegies.  poems imaging daily scenes living apartment life in pennsylvania, daily scenes caretaking for my father old-age & post-stroke, daily scenes questioning enlightenment & the soul of my country & daliy scenes celebrating sex & consciousness.  daily poems as visions & as new paradigm perspectives.  poems on the long view of our human story and all that we inherit from this long, unbroken ancestral chain of survival & the living of it.