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In the search to clarify the past-and thus transform the present, these poems turn over the shards of memory like the colored glass in a kaleidoscope, looking for an angle that will light up the great mystery of how we become and continue becoming who we are.
List of contents
- Contents
- I
- Getaway Girl
- Getaway Girl
- The Yearning City
- Suicide Boys
- The Garden
- Mad Insects
- A Different Life
- Boy in Distant Oak
- Night Ironing
- II
- The God of the Dead
- Good News
- Where Hell Is
- Family Room
- My Red Dress
- Wallpaper
- Map of Charleston, West Virginia
- An Ordinary Door
- Holiday Gifts
- Proof
- Tent of Freaks
- My Mother, the Missionary
- Fourth of July
- III
- Small Bending Hope
- Dream Ride
- Scrub Jay's Voice
- Tidal Wave
- Mother's Necklace
- Girls at Slumber Party
- How I Learned Romance
- Cow Skulls
- Furious Arrow
- Forgotten Morning
- Small Bending Hope
- IV
- Water Letting Go of Sunlight
- Absence of Water
- The Fairy Tale
- Find the River
- The Bag Lady
- Another Night in Jealous, U.S.A.
- The Comfort of Your Hands After Rain
- Woman Reading at River
- Ovarian Cyst
- Everglades
- Wind Through Blackbird Wings
- Invisible Birds
- Water Letting Go of Sunlight
About the author
Keith Brady was born in Melbourne, Australia. Eldest of three, his family moved to Hong Kong when he was five where he began school. At the tender age of nine, he was sent to boarding school in Sydney, Australia, only spending time with his family in Hong Kong during school holidays. Keith is fortunate to have a love of science, and an affinity for computer programming, the latter leading to a cadetship in a programming role in Sydney upon completing school. He also discovered playing computer games when they were DOS-based, and the industry was in its infancy. Keith enjoys the challenge required to play games well. To this day, he thinks of designing systems and writing programs as an art form rather than work.Keith discovered a passion for writing short anecdotes about his football team's games. He expanded into poetry, writing about people in his walking soccer team that incorporated humour and insights into the lives of those involved, and read over a coffee or beer post-match. He has not published the aforementioned beyond his team. The enjoyment he got from penning poetry led him to write a novella, 'Walkers in Space'. It was a story that had Keith and his teammates on a Sci-Fi adventure. These writing experiences sparked the desire to write stories for his grandchildren, and short stories for competitions.'First Step' is Keith's book debut, and his first publication in the StepWorld series. The series has provided Keith with the platform to bring together his love of science and space exploration, and his concerns about planetary health and global power relationships.
