Thriving Fire: Musings of A Poet's Odyssey

In his newest collection of forty-seven poems and three prose pieces, Thriving Fire: Musings of A Poet's Odyssey, evinces an undertone of Patrick's introspective nature, didactic insight, and ontological curiosity, questioning the purpose of his being in life. In addition, the book explores terse poetic narratives of a dubious man who conjectures a foreshortened future, idealizations of hopeless romance, personal confessions, which underline his social anxiety, depression, and quandaries of abstract thought.