These poems are about animal behaviors. Hunting and being hunted has characterized life on this planet from at least the Cambrian period, when trilobites slithering at the bottom of the seas were eating others or being eaten.
This book asks many questions. I think I have answers for some. Nevertheless, I hope you will have your own.
The image on the cover is my pen and pencil drawing of male and female mallard ducks flying.
In any page, you can click on or touch links to jump around in this book.
You may find the following keyboard equivalents to be convenient. Here I use the symbol ⌥ for the option key on Mac/OS or the alt key on Windows, ⇧ for the shift key, and ⏎ for the return (enter) key. Arrow keys are ◄ (left), ► (right), ▲ (up), and ▼ (down).
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cover | ⌥ ◄ | Books by Tom Sharp |
⌥ ▲ | About Tom Sharp | |
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⌥ ▼ | contents | |
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contents | ⇧ ⌥ ▲ | cover |
⌥ ▼ | select the next item in the contents | |
⌥ ▲ | select the previous item in the contents | |
⌥ ► | open the selected page | |
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poem | ⇧ ⌥ ▲ | contents |
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Tom Sharp is a Native American of Aleut heritage, a member of Seldovia Village Tribe. He is the author of numerous books, including Spectacles: A Sampler of Poems and Prose, Taurean Horn Press (ISBN 0-931552-10-9), a novel, Hans and the Clock (ISBN 979-8580172484), The book of science, SciFi (ISBN 979-8694935210), Things People Do (ISBN 979-8687425568), The book of beliefs (ISBN 979-8683553593), The I Ching (ISBN 979-8573510620), Images (ISBN 979-8577560515), Aleut Artifacts (ISBN 979-8575608998), Aleut Words (ISBN 979-8582103394), and First Nations (ISBN 979-8682924769).