Without Lifting A Finger

From Old Poems: WOODHENGE   Boys amid timothy. All morning shovels bite the turf to form a rough circle of a ditch Instead of greywethers wood scraps are dragged to the fence between yard and field A dead crow, five fake arrowheads and a jackknife find new life in a shallow grave The departing sun slants through a makeshift door    From New Poems:   LIMERICK   Last breakfast: at the door of the orange cow. Caps and scones    She argued against the young man behind the counter, I donned wig and gown and devilled to commute his sentence Four swans along the old wall (Strand side), heads drowning for food; nest-suggesting strokes of green  On the other side (above high water), Emer's monster line: IT WILL RISE WITH THE MOON    *** BUY THE BOOK (KINDLE EBOOK OR PAPERBACK)  @ AMAZON.COM!!!                          

Woodhenge by R L Swihart -- both paperback and Kindle eBook are available now at Amazon.  THE EBOOK IS FREE JULY 4 TO 8!!! Description: Contemporary Poetry. Old and New Work by R L Swihart. This book should be banned. Burned. OK, OK, but read it first: cover to cover: all one hundred poems. We too easily confuse "talking about things" with "things" (a sniff of a riff on Gödel) and this poetry will never let you forget it. *** R L Swihart's Woodhenge  

Though I've been reading almost all my books on Kindle (these days: via the Kindle App on my phone) for some while, I'd never heard of Amazon KDP. Until recently. A seemingly sage Irish publisher told me he couldn't publish my new poetry book solely because of economic reasons (he went on to explain the exorbitant shipping costs for paper to the EU and the US). Perhaps he was just saying No in a nice, constructive way, but he did go on to give me the idea: Self-Publish via Google or Amazon KDP or Somewhere Else. I thought self-publishing was Only Vanity Publishing (and maybe it is). I thought self-publishing was Pay Big Bucks (and that's not necessarily the case). Long story short: I took the dive. What do I have to lose? For me, it's never really been about money. The Kindle Version of Matman & Testudo was available at Amazon at the end of June. I hope to get a paper option out soon. These poems are probably the Best 100 of the last 5 years. Enjoy! Oh, and...