THE WOUNDED MORNING

This collection of flash and poetry explores the secret interior worlds of characters dealing with intense emotional landscapes. Some of the pieces flash back in time to reveal the underpinnings of feelings of inadequacy, such as the narrator in "Butterfly Season," who recalls a lost love in high school and beatings as a boy. The flashes drive this book forward with intense relationship moments as couples either battle the odds to stay together or throw in the towel. There's even a flash ballad to the Beat Poets during their early days in New York.