The Color of Stones Poems and Fictions

Review The Color Of Stones. . . is exotic, silly, energetic, moving...and much more. These are poems of spare precision, whether humorous or sad...personal or global in significance. They allow for memories to surface and feelings to awaken. -- The Courier, Pasadena City College From the Publisher Stephans is a award-winning poet and fiction writer whose work has been published in numerous magazines, journals, and literary anthologies. In addition to his literary activities, he is a jazz musician who has recorded extensively, and has performed on National Public Radio, as well as in concert halls and jazz venues nationwide. His sold-out collection of poetry, Mythematics also published by Red Dancefloor Press (1993). Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Letter from Home Their return address, a gray choppiness out on the reef, prelude to darker dances deep within a consort of clouds, heavied by unfinished businesses, geometries of right and wrong, the anger at being left behind. I place their letter, unopened, on the mantle near pictures taken long ago at the zoo, standing in front of a cage of small birds who sang on and on without pause, for reasons I have yet to understand.