Desert Dusk Music: A love story

By Thomas Timmins

Sensitive hands

He has the most beautiful hands. Long fingers, arced tips, black hair shiny as crow’s feathers on his knuckles, palms webbed with fine lines. Grinning, he says the tangle of lines means he’s ultra-sensitive. He’s sensitive, but not the way you’d expect. I say “You’re shallow.” He

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zoetown Media
• Release date: Mar 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9780997028768

Thomas Timmins

I somehow won the genes-and-family lottery when I inherited a natural happiness coupled with a skeptical eye and a drive to do. Despite numinous gifts of love and energy, my magic carpet has slipped out from under me many times. I believe pulling out of those nosedives gave me the confidence to write and write. That and the endless beauty and pain of the world around, and the deep pleasure I feel when I record and share in poems and stories what I feel and imagine. I developed and taught writing and coaching programs for youth artists, adult writers and adult inmates. I've published and performed work in person across the U.S., in numerous print magazines and on the Internet. With poet friends, I founded Fractals, a literary tabloid, and with musician friends, I ran Poets and Players, a community performance series-and I write a lot. My day jobs, the pylons holding up the electricity powering my artistic life, include founding and managing small businesses ranging from soy foods to ice cream to telephone fundraising to biological pest control to energy efficiency and solar retrofits and a media company. Some might think so many business and writing projects reveal an innate instability. I admit to restlessness, and I believe our complex lives happen while we meander a Crooked Path.

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Desert Dusk Music

DESERT DUSK music

—a love story—

tHoMas tiMMins

Zoëtown Media

Haydenville, Ma

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© 2016 Thomas Timmins

All rights reserved.

ISBN 978-0-9970287-6-8

Produced in the United States of America

Published by Zoëtown® Media

Zoëtown is a registered trademark of Zoëtown Media.

Haydenville, MA

www.thomastimmins.com

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Cover art by James Johnson-Corwin

Line drawings of desert fauna by Roger Hall Scientific Illustration,

Oakland, CA 94605 www.inkart.net

Book and cover design by Maureen Moore, Booksmyth Press

www.thebooksmythpress.com

For Janina, a true friend

Books by Thomas Timmins

Novels

Blood Medicine

The Special Fruit Company

Down at the River

The Hour Between One and Two (Trilogy)

Aphrodisiac for an Angel

Short Fiction

Puff of Time

Visions of My Other Self

Desert Dusk Music

Graphic Verse Novel

Zom

Poetry

I Was Just Laughing

Likings for Shadows