The Lost Shadow of Things is Harry Matthews' fifth poetry collection. These poems are informed by the poet's understanding of impermanence, and how the eternal expresses itself in us and through what surrounds us. His poems affirm an acceptance of life leading to an expansion of being, and in his keen sensitivity to the natural world articulates a vision of deep ecology.
Dedication
Epigraph I
Epigraph II
Epigraph III
1 Final Warning
2 Dawn of the Holy Cloud
3 Bottoms-Up
4 The Neo-Platonic Cave Philosopher
5 Toward the Peak of Parnassus
6 Wispily Chronicling the Pizazz
7 The Dolphin Race Fiasco
8 The Paladin
9 The Templar
10 The Lost Shadow of Things
11 Natural Balm, Divine Anodyne of SolitudProducts
12 Sad She Led You to the Deadenders
13 You Know What They Say From Their Pious Oasis?
14 Recognition
15 You Say
16 What if the Darkness Never Lifts?
17 Through the Looking Glass
18 You Get Some Time in the Coral Reef
19 Anathema
20 The Preliminary Purification of the Convocation
21 Divested of My Recent Wobble as I Swim
22 Dream Fragment of Cthulhu
23 The Fighting is Best Where It Breaks
24 Nocturnal Ode on a Peculiar Moon
25 Bacchanalia
26 Let Me Call You Over the Throbbing Sea
27 The Fire
28 When We Ran To The Sea
29 Bright Shoot of the Seed
30 To Save My Life You Bid Me Go
31 Shagsbear's 76th Sonnet
32 You Can't Make The Light Leave My Eyes
33 Mi-Chemin
34 Conflict in the Preening
35 You Know What They Say From Their Pious Oasis?
36 Answering the Dolphin Pod Prodigy
37 Lake of the Small Hill
38 Answering the Denial of the Great Dolphin
39 Only You Know What Lifts You Up
40 That He May Come to the Sea Spirit
41 Words That Might Have Heartened Him
Endnotes
About The Author
