Poetry
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself – Plato.
The mind is bigger than the space we inhabit. The protagonist in this collection is the Everyman in us who leaves the yowl and yelp of his home crowd to shape a future – to distance himself from the familiar, so-called tried and tested. He finds his place, space and voice in a fourth floor flat from where, in 44 Cantos, he grants us access to his hopes, dreams, expectations and thought patterns.
As we progress through the collection, we begin to realize that the human being cannot avoid thinking unusual, strange, confused, happy, absurd and ridiculous thoughts – and these thoughts or images present themselves consciously and unconsciously in orderly, chaotic, mumbo-jumbo chunks from birth to death.
How many images can the observer observe and process in an instant, an hour, a day? Almost impossible to answer although some have tried with limited success. Of greater significance is the fact that this character opens up a window to the remarkable, unremarkable existence of one person – perhaps allowing us insight into our own incomplete, time-strapped world of work-in-progress.