At the End of Day published in 2007 by Traprock Books.
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"These poems are like a sip of spring water on a hot day, clear and refreshing. Applegate has a gift for distilling a moment to its essence, for choosing one precise image that conveys more than a hundred could." Sue Fagalde Lick, Author of Azorean Dreams and Shoes Full Of Sand
BLUE IRIS On a small white canvas an artist is sketching a Japanese flower which seems, at first glance, an abstraction, the idea of a flower and not the thing itself. Then you notice how the brush imagines the petal, how ink roots the stem. And now the canvas is a page, the page a white field stitched in the middle by Shushiki’s haiku Dead my old fine hopes and dry my dreaming but still… iris, blue each spring |