In the Heat of the Forest

By Patrick M. Ohana

In the Heat of the Forest features over 50 pieces, in the form of prose and poetry, spinning around trees and their prehistoric plight of being considered as material instead of fully alive like all animals, except that they cannot take flight whether to the sky or away from predators and fire, although there are species of trees that can withstand the latter and even many predators, save us, of course.
I love trees and most other plants. I seem to love humans too, and most other animals, but I may be biased, of course. Yet, in terms of being able to communicate, I think that I can understand trees better, not caring much about what most other animals are purported to be implying, with an adequate quantity of exceptions, nonetheless, such as many birds and a bit higher number of humans.
This “literary” assembly starts with 19 prose pieces, followed by 32 poems in several forms, including the sonnet (my favourite), alexandrine and acrostic. Other forms of poetry include the haiku, haiku plus (my “novelty”), tanka, mantinada and, of course, free verse, as well as new lyrics to three known songs. A couple of the prose pieces use poetry for one reason or another, even in the form of a paragraph instead of the typical layout of a poem.
Most of In the Heat of the Forest’s pieces were penned over a period of 15 months between 2020 and 2021, while several others were written in 2022. I hope that you can appreciate these tree stories and poems, or at least trees and their right to live as tall and as old as they can become.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781471699405

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