Heart Quake is a journey through the depth and variety of human emotions that inspire, confuse and drive behavior. One wants to believe that conscious decisions steer actions,but beneath it there is always emotion. How fully or how constrained we live depends on how well we understand the source of our emotions and how we utilize them.

Heart Quake explores the emotional inscape of consciousness that exists to help us survive and dares us to understand ourselves. It requires a sort of weedy tenacity to find our true heart in the briars of contemporary options. Still, we do rise to the occasion.

These poems acknowledge that need to try, and they champion every effort on the way. They survey emotional challenges in delicate shades of tenderness, hoary irony, hurt and perplexity. Love sometimes comes in as riotous, colorful and vibrant. Other times; it;s haunted, exhausted, or even a bit claustrophobic. The masks of innocence are peeled away as the heart shudders and shakes its way to the realization of love.

This poetry doesn't hail from any defined school of poetry, but fearlessly breaks new ground on its way to powerfully expressing just how tough it really is, to be loving. Immersed in evocative imagery, these stories are about heroes, trekking with a persistent hope towards self-knowledge and the willingness to be vulnerable to love and its healing graces..Relax into them.

The publishing industry is arrogant and impervious to new talent, unless you are otherwise famous, and after years of trying to get their attention I have decided to go it alone. That means; I have no corporate sponsors, no deep pocket. I am an independent author/publisher. It's just you and me.

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