Frank Dreams

Everything we say and hear has an effect on us. Everything we do is copying. The only way to learn is to embarrass ourselves. Death is a dog.So goes the major course of Frank Dreams, a book of poetry at heart, or, if the reader is in a scientific mood, a fourfold perspective on life through the lenses of Language, Mimicry, Education, and Death.In Language, French and English fall in love, although they're related, and anyone who happens to catch them in the act can't help but come away from the whole ordeal feeling a little froggy, wanting to leap.In Mimicry, fifteen seemingly traditional poems turn out to be modelled each after a game, thus making the overall poem a promise to all future poets that if you but pay attention to what you enjoy, and you're a good boy, it will be Beauty, not you, that gets the fear of missing out.In Education, the poet, with three years of high-school teaching under his belt, logs his experience as a substitute teacher, revealing finally what the average classroom, in its "infinite variety," actually looks like.Lastly, in Death, 70+ candid dreams are recorded verbatim with the intention to figure out just a little more about that obscure realm in which each of us spends a third of our life.All this poetry, all this science, is tethered as Frank Dreams, and presented as a flower. Read more