Publisher's Synopsis
Edmond Bruneau creates another delightfully digestible collection of poems in his third book called "The Totem". This 131 page edition includes 105 poems and one short story. Deep thoughts, masterful wordplay and uncanny clarity combines to make this volume of work both contemplative and compelling. Enjoy a poem or two for a quick break - or dine on the whole poetic meal in one sitting.
Individual poem titles include:
The Totem
In Our Nature
Perception is Reality
I Think
Costco Dogs
As the Crow Flies
Next Step
Pneumonia
The Easterner
The Paths We Choose
Good Old Days
No More Cats
Invisible
Debeaking
Want of a Nail
Category 4 Vacation
Sacred Heart Samuri
An Author's Apparatus
Pray for Rain
Chameleon
The Attic
You Will Be OK
Camping Our Way to Reno
Colors of Joy
Ginger
Public Meeting
Warped Wisdom
Freedom
Bit of a Pickle
Love
Cabbages and Kings
News from the Raven Haven
Something's Brewing
Masked Marauders
Beam Me Up
Florida Euphoria
Harvest Adieu
Chinook
Rhymes with Orange
Giving Up Smoking
An Endless Summer Day
Nine Lives
In a Drawer
Hollidaze
Pig Leather
Extravagance
Perspective
Just My Age
Cotton Candy
Sotto Mare
Pollyanna
The Kissing Disease
Coloring Outside the Lines
Flower Child
Knack of Lacking
A Novel Approach
Medium Well
Selling Like Hot Cakes
Puyallup Fair
The Little Tramp
The Bitterroot
Escape
No Place Like Oz
Small Miracles
Back Porch
Gratitude
Geometry
Learning from Regrets
Harry Truman
Once They've Seen Paree
The Letter
Be Gone, Winter
Spring Forward
Staying in Bed
My-gration
New Year
Terra Cotta Heart
It's Quiet Now
Purgatory
Mirror Mirror
The Great Pumpkin
Trump
Warm White Light
Homeward Bound
Hideaway
Two to Tango
Animus
Hot Water
Whisper in the Wind
Dichotomy Debris
Good Grief
Hamlet Heartbreak
Futile Fantasia
Haunted
Journey to Humus
Simba
Syzygy
Peacock
Powerless
Stroke of Luck
Slender Circumstance
Spring Fever
Mordant Memories
Ode to the Commode
A Song of Solitude
