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    Flutter By

    By B. Miller

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    Ephemeral observations meet spiritual resilience in B. Miller's poetry debut, Flutter By, composed over the past four years. Perspectives on life's torments and absurdities are starkly confronted, with some solace sprinkled in. This collection is for anyone at the intersection of the abyss and God's caress.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateMay 4, 2022
    ISBN9781666723717
    Flutter By
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    B. Miller

    B. Miller is a twenty-year-old etymology enthusiast living on Long Island, New York. Much of her writing is prompted by her experiences and those of others. She is a proud Orthodox Jew.

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      Flutter By - B. Miller

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      B. Miller. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers,

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      hardcover isbn: 978-1-6667-2370-0

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      I .

      The Director

      Jealousy

      A Name Humane

      Button

      Worthwhile

      The March

      Suggestion on the Sill

      Cents

      Saftie

      Sidewalk Sale

      Dragonfly

      September’s Sports

      Bamboo Pantoum

      Physics 101

      Rummi Sub (to be read both downwards and upwards)

      Photo Gallery

      Tenderfoot

      Record of Decay

      America the Dutiful

      Esoteric

      Squares

      Life on a Cloud

      Note to The Franks

      Ilyich Kicks the Bucket

      II ~

      Flutter By

      The Page She Missed

      Spin Room

      The Kahuna

      I Had a Hope

      Solitaire

      The Russian Bus

      Waiting for Friday

      Mist Understanding

      Into Oblivion

      Quality Matches

      Suffolk Girl

      Senescence

      Fight or Flight

      Poseur

      Seriously

      Missing Heaven

      Food Chain

      A Bachelor’s Haiku

      God’s Apocalypse

      Missed Milestone

      Elevation Test

      Crowded

      Elephants Can Remember

      Mikvah Lady

      III ;

      Archaeologist Bites the Dust

      Tribes

      Skeletons in The Closet

      Docile Fossils

      On The Fringes

      Used To

      Stranger Conversations

      Forged

      The Grudge

      Final Reckoning

      Possible to Plan It?

      Lands’ End

      Fishing

      Eulogium

      A Harvest Rushed Against a Setting Sun

      Afterpiece

      La Dépossession

      Bygone

      Heaven’s Vanguard

      Other Side

      And Now

      Froideur

      Inflated

      IV Ɛ3

      Providence

      Grit

      Branded

      Dead Spinnerets

      Espousal

      The Move Down

      Tinted

      Deciduous Drowsiness

      Rest Your Want

      Used

      Altar Waiting

      Ocean Spray

      A Void Dance

      You Had to Be There

      Composed

      Reasonably Healthy

      Rehashed

      New Haven Manor

      Resistance

      Too Close to Home

      A Towel Thrown In

      Apple of The I

      Imago

      I .

      The Director

      Movies of the mind

      produced by a man with shades

      who sits on a folding chair and yells cut

      more than he needs to.

      Some are projected with a twisting reel

      onto the wall of imagined thoughts

      where a safe – maybe even happy – ending is discernable

      through the binoculars of a stretched-out hope

      appearing nearby, in reality far from it.

      Departing the theatre, his feet land

      on kernels of wisdom, dropped from popcorn bags

      of the phantom audience who frequent his show

      and now he’s just a deer caught

      in the headlights of one

      horrible thought:

      this film, it is false

      a script of delusion

      a trap of

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