As Day Breaks

Poetry. Young Adult. "How does poetry come into being? The process is not primarily in the head. One must be emotionally connected and even physically moved. Facts and fictions can be twisted into a good solid mooring rope, or looped into a string for flying a nice red kite, or spun into threads soft enough for a sparrow to snatch up for her nest. The figures of a bright child and an old prophet of the heart may seem more or less interchangeable, stepping slowly side by side across a beach, picking up strange voices floating in the wind like small feathers. Such is the nature of happenings in this magical peregrination of Theofil Halama—'AS DAY BREAKS.'"—John Dotson