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The poetry that I write comes out in groups.

It is formed as individual poems.

Each one complete to itself (some rather short though), but loosely connected to a number of others.

A big inspiration that caused me to bother with writing down all of those words that wandered through my head was a piece written by Harlan Ellison called "Eidolons" that was included in the Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine.  Each 'eidolon' captured a moment (for me anyway) - like a verbal snapshot.  To this day, I treasure the experience of reading them.  And my collections are my version of creating verbal snapshots.

They are meant to be read in order - so I will post them in order.  And in some cases, the number that I give them matters and means something.  Usually that is only true when I give something the number zero.

I will also post a whole series before moving onto the next.

I wouldn't want to break up the families.

The first set that I wrote - I also titled 'Eidolons'.

I love that word.

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