Paul Pines

Adrift on a Blinding Light

CAVERNS LA FLECHE

  • Earliest accounts of creation
  • declare that our ancestors lived

  • in a state of perfect knowledge
  • could stare into the heart of heaven

  • until fearful gods blinded them
  • to all but the buried memory

  • of their origin
  • in search of which they crawled

  • down dark passages
  • toward images of bison

  • deer and woolly mammoth
  • galloping by torch light

  • flank and fetlock
  • fitted to the jutting surface

  • of a rock-hewn womb
  • from which blind

  • and forgetful men might be
  • born a second time

  • into what
  • lives unseen inside them


    • Reviews



    Paul Pines's latest book, Adrift On Blinding Light, offers a dazzling tour through a poet's self-construction. .although these images may not raise us up in the emotional sense, they always seem to arrive as a startling surprise, perfectly timed to shake us out of the ordinary.

    Neil Kozolowicz - RAIN TAXI, fall 2003


    Pines takes the reader on a mysterious complicated journey. Dreams, archetypes, icons, friends and confessions swirl through the poems in beautiful and complex images...

    This wonderfully unpredictable, intuitive book navigates the conscious and subconscious worlds with fluid, imaginative, and fascinating energy--as poets should do.

    William Kelly - MULTICULTURAL REVIEW, Sept, 2003