Rough Edges Intact

“Rough Edges Intact” is a volume of verses and poems written as web logs and previously published on the social networking site “MySpace”. The title says it all: the poems are reproduced here exactly as they did online, and so there will be imperfections a-plenty. The poet will polish his words until he is completely satisfied before allowing the public anywhere near them whereas the blogger will scribble off his work and post it in next to no time, with all its rough edges still there. The works in this book were written during the period of August 2007 – January 2008. The cover photograph was provided by Dorothy Gernert, who was also the inspiration behind many of the more sentimental poems.