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A Mouth For Picket Fences

Fiction » Poetry » Contemporary Poetry

By Barry Napier
Published by Belfire Press
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Published: Feb. 25, 2011
Words: 10504 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

The bulk of the poems within are mostly dark, but not so dark that they would fall neatly into the genre of “horror poetry.” The collection deals with normal people, assumed to be living within the same neighborhood or town, and how they are affected by loss, the presence of evil and the testing of their moral and spiritual beliefs.

Extended description

Broken into three parts, A Mouth for Picket Fences operates with a very subtle narrative thread connecting the three parts. The parts are distributed as follows:

Part 1: Normalcy: This group of poems deals with how people cope with the monotony of their everyday lives. These poems are, for the most part, not very dark at all but they do deal with the range of human emotion, from loss to lust and everything in between, as well as how the secrets people keep hidden can eventually shape their perceptions of the world and their lives. There are no overly successful or rich people in these poems. These are normal people, dealing with every day (albeit morose and humbling) human experiences.

Part 2: The Darkness Weighs Us: This group of poems opens with “A Mouth for Picket Fences” in which we witness a stranger walking into town and getting along famously with the majority of the residents. Unbeknownst to the townspeople, this man brings with him an evil presence that he scatters throu... (Read more)

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