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    Brighter This Time: (Poems)
    Brighter This Time: (Poems)
    Brighter This Time: (Poems)
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    Brighter This Time: (Poems)

    By Micah-Nahum Ferguson

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    In graceful tone and spare format Ferguson explores themes of love, loss, spirituality and identity with equal diligence in this collection. The poems attempt to connect the jagged stars of a young mans subconscious. Pieces display questions and affirmations, introspection and observation, self and society, truth and fiction. Brighter This Time is a dreamy and fragmentary work of someone striving to shine.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781532004926
    Brighter This Time: (Poems)
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    Micah-Nahum Ferguson

    Micah-Nahum Ferguson lives in Colorado. This is his first poetry collection.

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      Brighter This Time - Micah-Nahum Ferguson

      Brighter This Time

      (poems)

      Micah-Nahum Ferguson

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      BRIGHTER THIS TIME
      (POEMS)

      Copyright © 2016 Micah-Nahum Ferguson.

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      Contents

      [bright]

      sensory thought

      and for the night-time

      different

      passersby in winter

      white sentries

      bright, alive

      the magnetic woman

      lucid echo

      night show

      sweet fog

      all those before us

      shattered scar

      a golden balance

      the seam of time

      the reeds

      otherly air

      exodus

      conception complete

      lack of sleep

      battle of day

      sound of change

      paperback eyes

      another city mouse

      [brighter]

      a hole in the wing

      the artist knows (for sandburg)

      austinites,

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