About the book

Quiet on the Outside… is my fourth collection of poems.

Softcover 5.5 x 8.5 in., 136 pages
Alarm Cat Press #ART42
ISBN: 9780990794950
July 2015
OUT OF PRINT

Smashwords e-book edition (ePub & Kindle)
ISBN: 9781311771681
July 2015
OUT OF PRINT

Amazon Kindle e-book edition (Kindle)
ASIN: B010OPV590
July 2015
OUT OF PRINT

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What’s in the book

The contents are divided into six sections:

Autobiography

Sample poem: Sometimes you say it better than I ever could

Dreams, Fantasies, and Fictions

Sample poem: Unarmed #2

The Solar System Cycle An experiment—acrostic poems about the planets, with the lines originally written in reverse order.

Sample poem: 

Saturn

Same thing every time:

after the event is long over
time erases memories

Under bright summer skies
reminiscence is pointless

Next to the statue, two gods talk

Observations

Sample poem: Islands are bodies of land surrounded on all sides by water

Whimsy

Sample poem: Sam-I-Am cannot be trusted

Short Forms

Sample poem: 6-inch alien

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(Revised 12 June 2026)