A Commonplace Book

FROM A COMMONPLACE BOOK: Tracks "Half a billion years ago a creature slithered across the sea floor for the first time. It may have launched an evolutionary arms race." -Rob Moor I. Shot Hole Borers Look close, here, here and here they entered the pulpy underworld beneath bark, through bore-holes round as shot, round and spaced as any planned invasion. And then they tunnel- but aimlessly-perhaps in search of something we can't know-their loops and straight lines, their crooked trails and cul de sacs-they might be deer paths, native trails, or timbered-out pioneer roads through Kentucky's of new land. They show us...what? they gave up and died, or doubled back following their own scent of frass, or the familiar groove they cut through pulpwood: what? A day, a week, a month ago? I found quartered log after split log full of them. Bark on I would have missed them; stripped they are pure Pollocks.

Author: H. a. Maxson
Publisher: Blast Press
Published: 10/10/2017
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9780998482941

About the Author
H. A. Maxson is the author of 17 books-5 collections of poetry (Turning the Wood, Walker in the Storm, The Curley Poems, Hook and Lemon Light); a book-length poem (The Walking Tour: Alexander Wilson in America) and a novel in free verse (Brother Wolf); two novels (The Younger and Comfort-co-authored with Claudia H. Young); a study of Robert Frost's sonnets (On the Sonnets of Robert Frost), and seven works of historical fiction for young readers, co-authored with Claudia H. Young. Over 1000 poems, stories, reviews, essays and articles have appeared in periodicals, journals and anthologies. He has been nominated several times for Pushcart Prizes. He holds Ph.D. from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and has taught literature and creative writing for over four decades at the college level. Married to Maureen Maxson, a nurse and photographer, they are organic gardeners in Milford, DE.

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