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    The Bridge: Poems
    The Bridge: Poems
    The Bridge: Poems
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    The Bridge: Poems

    By David Holper

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    A collection of award winning poetry by David Holper that walks with us by candleflame, side-by-side, as we put one foot in front of the other on the bridge that takes us from the depths of darkness behind us to the greater mouth of darkness ahead.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSequoiaSong Publications
    Release dateApr 1, 2019
    ISBN9781732199859
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      The Bridge - David Holper

      The Bridge

      Text Copyright © 2019 by David Holper

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. To request permission, please contact: [email protected].

      Published by SequoiaSong Publications

      P.O. Box 2551

      McKinleyville, CA 95519

      Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Holper, David, 1957-

      The Bridge / by David Holper.

      p. cm.

      Summary: A collection of award winning poetry by David Holper that walks with us on the bridge from the depths of darkness behind us to the greater darkness ahead.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019932567

      ISBN-13: 978-1-7321998-3-5 (pbk.)

      ISBN-13: 978-1-7321998-2-8 (hardcover.)

      ISBN: 978-1-7321998-5-9 (e-book)

      Subjects: Poetry—21st century. | Prose poems, American. | Humboldt Bay

      (Calif.)—Poetry. | Humboldt County (Calif.)-—Poetry. Classification: PS3523.E7995 S66 2019

      Interior design, layout and editing by CM Phillips

      Cover design by CM Phillips

      Cover photograph by Charles M. Hiller, commissioned by the Assoicated Oil

      Company (1935), via Anne T. Kent California Room, Marin County Free Library, public domain.

      Special thanks to Carol Acquaviva, Librarian/Digital Archivist for her help in tracking down this photograph.

      Set in Adobe Garamond Pro

      Printed in the U.S.A.

      To Michele

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      I

      Giving Notice

      God’s Speed

      Liturgy at Slide Ranch

      Parting Words

      Unsaid

      To Pewetole Island

      The Six Things A River Might Say If It Were to Speak

      II

      Objective Correlative

      Ditching the Tour

      Upon Seeing the Great Wave of Kanagawa

      Floral Arrangement

      Doubt

      The Trees at Gettysburg

      Black Is Also A Color

      III

      Afreet of White Privilege

      Broken

      Du Xooni

      Extinction Event

      Fiction Lesson

      Charlottesville

      Newer Miracles

      IV

      Villains

      The Kestrel

      Don’t You Know?

      Candleflame

      Harrowing

      What the Hands Say of Love

      The Bridge

      V

      Afterwards

      Somewhere North of Nurnberg

      Caña de Azúcar

      Regret

      Rain in Summer

      Subtracting the Darkness

      Hiking the Skunk Cabbage Trail

      VI

      Dear Miss Merrill

      Listen to the Voice That Speaks Within Your Heart

      Writer’s Block

      Weekend Plans

      The Dead Grandmother

      Seven Rides to Remember

      Invocation to an Open Mike

      Acknowledgments

      The Bridge: honorable mention in Gemini Magazine poetry contest, summer 2014.

      Broken. The Northcoast Journal, 10 Jan. 2019. https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/broken/Content?oid=12742324

      Caña de Azúcar: winner of the Jodi Stutz Award in Toyon, 2014; republished in Literariedad, fall 2016.

      Civilization. Relief, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 2011.

      The Dead Grandmother: first place in Rotting Post humor contest, fall 2016. https://rottingpost.com/2016/10/02/therotting-post-humor-competition/

      Ditching the Tour. Relief, vol. 3, no. 2, Dec. 2009.

      Doubt. Relief, vol. 4, no. 2, 2011. (nominated for a Pushcart Award)

      Du Xooni: winner of the Noctua Review poetry contest, 2017. https://www.noctuareview.com/david-holper-du-xooni/

      Fiction Lesson. I Come From the World, spring 2017.

      Floral Arrangement. The Northcoast Journal, 3 Nov. 2011. https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/floral-arrangement/Content?oid=2132645

      Giving Notice. The Northcoast Journal, 19 Dec. 2013. https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/giving-notice/Content?oid=2447827

      Hiking the Skunk Cabbage Trail. Third Wednesday, May 2012.

      The Kestrel. Joy Journal Anthology, spring 2016.

      Listen to the Voice That Speaks Within Your Heart. I Come From the World, spring 2017.

      Newer Miracles. Literariedad, fall 2016. https://literariedad.co/2016/12/04/davidholper/

      Objective Correlative. Third Wednesday, spring 2012.

      Rain in Summer. Joy Journal Anthology, spring 2016.

      Regret. The Northcoast Journal, 6 Nov. 2014. https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/regret/Content?oid=2757344

      Seven Rides to Remember. Pilgrimage, fall 2013.

      The Six Things A River Might Say If It Were to Speak. The Kerf, 2007.

      The Trees at Gettysburg. The Inner Patriot, 2009.

      Weekend Plans. Ruminate, vol. 14: Jest, winter 2009/2010.

      No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.

      — Friedrich Nietzsche

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