The included poems represent a sizable number of years work.  My poems have always, generally speaking, fallen into three categories:  nostalgic pieces, as my eyes see "history" in everything that touches them; socially conscious verse; and mystic verse, as I attempt, in my small way, to "unravel the meaning of the Universe." Still, I was surprised by the continuity of the pieces.  I see with the same eyes I used when I was twenty.  I write a little bit better, and have developed a little more ability to recognize and excise really awful lines.  I have the distance now to write of things I saw, did, and imagined when I was twenty. So I can write about myself now, at least in the context of past years.  Otherwise, little has changed.

I was pleased to find that so much, from so many years, does fit coherently together.  I am also pleased by the technology that allows me, a person who cannot draw a straight (or crooked) line, to pair my words with visual images.  The images consist of computer altered and enhanced photographs, and are as much the product of my eyes and my imagination as are the poems.

The title, Chords of the Night Wind, reflects my hope that at least some of my imagery flows from the subconscious, the home of our Anima and our dreams, where we perceive and understand something of what lies below the prosaic surface of our worlds.