The Light Looks Another Way: A Space Poem Trilogy

By David Joathan Newman

The Light Looks Another Way is a three-part collection of poems that chronicles the thoughts, emotions, and observations of a nameless, shape-shifting fictional character. A wandering soul from a shattered universe, he sets sail through space and time to find meaning in the outer limits of darkness. His travels have brought him to Earth where his human form allows for an experience that is truly alien. Is there light within human existence or does the light look another way?

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jun 28, 2003
• ISBN: 9781469722405

David Joathan Newman

David Jonathan Newman made his mark on the literary world with the 2002 release of Pure Luck & Good Fury. He is a 1998 graduate of the UCONN School of Pharmacy and is known to many as a mild-mannered pharmacist. When called into action, his superhero powers champion the cause of the literate.

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for the alienated, the betrayed, the crestfallen, the scorned, the abused,

the disaffected, the cheated, the shamed, the besieged, the mistreated, the wronged,

the shaken, the jaded, the hopeless, the misjudged, the broken, the loveless

may the following words and images give you strength

Contents

I

The Outer Limits

Aphelion

Warning

A Masochist’s Introspective

One Way

Not Sick, But I Do Feel a Redux Coming

On

Immersion

War on Paper

As This World Burns

Forty-eight, Forty-nine, Fifty

95 Miles an Hour Later

The Odd Refreshment

Far Beyond Fallen

Live Life, Taste Death

Thought I’d Write a Poem for Your

Love, But You Never Call

Love and Inertia

Apparently Transparent Deluge of Savage Awareness

Star Quaker

Strange Arrival

Thoughts on Deed and Altruism

A Mass in Pieces

New Matter to Discuss

Swimming in New Elements

Evilize

Money and the Devil’s Disguise

The Ever-shifting Definition of Self

Individual Fantasy Quotient

Billionth Day of the Billionth Year

for Ralf Scheepers

Where My Animosity Begins

Cosmic Angst

Blessed Roman Sunrise

One Less Day of Doom

Spark and Clay-form

Traveling Worlds

Commentary on Her Heavenly, Interstellar Universe

Electronic Attack

The Book I Read at Breakfast

The Aztec Sun: Mosaic

II

Journey to the Sun: A Hard Road

Perihelion

Anvil & the Wordsmith

Motivation Walks Through The Door

Beautiful Creature (Emitter of the Beloved Light)

Days in the Red Age

Smoke Up

Midnight Latitudes

Upon Hawk Winds and Solar Mares

for Dave Brock

Love is Alchemy

for CAH

Life Loves a Journey

Personification of Light

for CAH

Cycle of Soundmaking

Two Shapes: Tangential

for Charlene

This Island Devotional

She Can Feel Me Breathing

for JSN

Total

Eclipse

Seismic Event (Praeludium)

Fall Down, Fall Out

(There Will Be) Satisfaction

Pharaohs & Assholes

Softly the Departure

Not So Subtle Theme for a Mean Machine

for Rob Halford

The Deplorable Human Form

How the Living Perceive the Dead

The Caper, the Illusion

Hostis Humani Generis

Space Talk

Cinema: The Ends of Aggression

Wicked Weeping Wedge Driven Betwixt

Alone with a Gun

Mantra

Inside the Works of Others

Futurisms

Sex is Religion (Part 2)

The Minutes that Never Mattered

Flesh on a Motif

Tales from the War

The Ultra-sadness

Misery Show

Never a Winning Hand (Demonized)

for the ignorant bigot

Into Surrender

III

Arrival Also Finds

Humor and Illumination

Parallax

Dear in the Headlights

U.F.O.

The Farther Adventures in Sin

for ex-girlfriends

She’s a Neoplasm

for ex-girlfiends

e. Coli, Therefore I am

Sol

Au Revoir

for CAH

I

The Outer Limits 

Aphelion 

Warning 

Fear is created

Fear is coming near