Cast in the Brightest Shadows Author:William Lawton Like a collection of leaves, Cast in the Brightest Shadows fell one poem at a time from the forest of my youth into the opening windows of my meditations on middle age, as if I were reliving my youth by riding in a car through a surrealistic forest, with the car being guided by a ghost with spiny fingers. — Paintings, seraphim, forest crea... more »tures, and forgotten victories are among the ghosts and other creatures marching, unwatched, through the dusty streets of Cast in the Brightest Shadows.
Without regard to details and refurbishings, these poems are arrayed throughout the corners of my mind like pictures without frames or waterfalls without charts.
Read, reader, and don't forget that one day, you too will shine like a Vermeer painting.« less