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    Petrichor: Life, Respite, and the Pursuit of Her
    Petrichor: Life, Respite, and the Pursuit of Her
    Petrichor: Life, Respite, and the Pursuit of Her
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    Petrichor: Life, Respite, and the Pursuit of Her

    By Ian Nething and Delaney Nething

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    Petrichor: Life, Respite, and the Pursuit of Her takes a poetic journey through the mind of an ordinary human learning what it means to be alive. Rather than seeking to impart knowledge, the autho

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIan Nething
    Release dateSep 28, 2021
    ISBN9781087937694
    Petrichor: Life, Respite, and the Pursuit of Her
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    Ian Nething

    Ian Nething is an Atlantan at heart currently residing in Greenville, South Carolina with a political science degree and a manufacturing job. When he's not at work, he enjoys watching sports, "doing nature," and an exquisite cup of coffee. If he doesn't become a world famous poet, he would at least like to have his own cat.

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      Book preview

      Petrichor - Ian Nething

      Petrichor

      Petrichor

      Petrichor

      Life, Respite, and the Pursuit of Her

      Ian Nething

      Ian Nething

      Cover design by Faith Borga

      Back cover inset photo by Delaney Nething

      Copyright © 2020 by Ian Nething

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      First Printing, 2020

      in memory of Matt Nething,

      better known to me as Dad

      Contents

      Preface

      Life

      reign

      pursuit

      spark

      cauliflower

      collision

      escape

      vivo

      chains

      Vannsanna

      extraction

      blind

      joules

      Page

      matter

      elephants

      Gal

      nike

      eve

      Pierce

      reformed

      labour

      Respite

      sunflowers

      journey

      Hollywood

      Suches

      spruce

      Saint

      Piran

      Rundle

      Liberty

      the Pursuit of Her

      Survival

      waiting

      daydream

      300

      railroad

      Cataleya

      serendipity

      shadows

      erosion

      prayer

      pax

      water

      gladiator

      Pyrrhus

      tyranny

      Coddle

      stone

      post

      static

      prism

      Rory

      limitless

      Acknowledgments

      Preface

      If you’re anything like me, you probably didn’t particularly enjoy studying poetry in school. What if the tree is just a tree? How do we know what he meant? He’s dead. Both sentiments were repeated frequently in some form from frustrated students to equally frustrated English teachers whenever we came across poetry in our literature books. This small collection exists to bring this art form from one ordinary human to another in an accessible manner.

      First and foremost, I write to convey emotion. I’ve always considered poetry especially to be a deeply personal experience. Having never considered

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