Want for Nothing Author|Troy Simonson Those from Above

Those from Above

and cooperation

and then writing down how that feels

attached to the others by heritage or circumstance or love

In several poems an aura of nostalgia is present which is less a yearning for past times than a questioning reappraisal of what was really going on back then

Want for Nothing Author|Troy Simonson Those from AboveWant for Nothing is a linked series of short poems of kaleidoscopic variety, by turns cryptic and blunt, funny and sad, awake again and dreaming again. Collectively, these poems speak of disorientation and longing, but the grudging circumstances of this speech and the irrepressible playfulness powering it are both evident from moment to moment, a dynamic perhaps referred to in the text as "that characteristic charismatic poignant self involved