Journey In Flagrante

This book selects and organizes a lifetime of poetry by noted poet Patricia Cherin, of the Long Beach school of poetry. Poems include:Interior balloon. To keep the spirits up. I inflate myself at breakfastwheeling in the helium tankwith the morning paper. I blow myself upto speak on registerbreathing within breathpurposeful pantslittle mantras willing cellsto carry onall day I chasethe red ballooninside medear scarlet orbslowly leakingDante's woodsI've been walking inDante's dark woods latelythey are Hester Prynne's woods tooand Red Riding Hood'sthe tall trees make the going throughthe seeing ahead or aroundor even behind difficultthe foliate heaven is immediateand obscurant and presses downas the verdant mulchy floor bears upit is not however claustrophobicbut oddly comfortingif not exactly liberatoryit is wonderfully and historicallyrich with precedent, dearly familiar