Patrick J Leach: 21 books

This is the first publication where these poems appear anywhere. This book is over 550 pages long! I put all of myself into this. I know this is the goal of the poet, and probably every poet in the world would say this. I do not keep secrets when I write. This is as close to me as a person can get,...

BARE TREESThe beauty of bare trees right beforethe sun comes backLove just before it consummates ina full blown relationshipA man right before he passes on whathe knows to the next generationPoems written by an unknown authorwho questions his worth right before thepublic recognizes what he’s writtenAh,...

Tadpoles looking like little fish,sprout legs,become frogs and hop away.I like it when you approveof what I dored tideyellow moon-men in boats fish for foodonce a tiny fishing village,over fished –now a tourist trap without fishReverence, the deepblack space between stars...

In the Labyrinth Obscurity rattles me. One labyrinth tangled inside another. Skeletons with living flesh hanging off, defying the certainty of death. Before I entered this being. I would walk on Earth, on feet of clay. Become dust particles coalesced. Over centuries orbiting a star....

Defoliation of Self I sleep with the window open and the furnace off It rests my mind I love being alone after days out with people, or Without them working outside defoliating weeds And blackberries, truth be told I lost my trust in people Long ago, Diagnosis: not very social I...

In this and my other books of poetry and art I celebrate with youthis process of life, our dreams, our fantasies, and everything wecollectively know as the world.The OperationIBut I was awakeReading the surgeon’s mindHe cut through boneRemoved part of my skullExposed the brainRan a...

bent grass this path leading through briers and thickets of tall weeds just enough room to carry on with some spaces wide enough to rest the sky full of birds and white and silver clouds on blue then suddenly water sounds and a cool breeze with ocean smells the path widens into rolling dunes...