Customer Reviews:

• "Mr. Holshuer quotes Plato in the introductory page to this chapbook: "Poets write of wonderful and mystical things that they themselves do not understand." In keeping with that quote, Holshuer reflects on life and death, taking the measure of angels, demons, and souls on his journey.

"Defined Light" is a metaphorical poem where light and darkness battle in this excerpt:

      Light is defined by the night
      For evil echoes in hearts
      Of the angry plight
      Hiding in shadow void of light

This excerpt from "Funeral" gives hope and assurance that, in a dark world, love and light prevails:

      Souls are released from entombed
      Places
      As the dove of love embraces
      Those returning to holy
      Graces

In "Heaven," Holshuer ponders what mysteries await us in the afterlife. No one alive can answer his questions:

      I cannot Imagine, nor
      Fathom, what Heaven
      Will Entail.
      My eyes are covered,
      Covered with a Veil.
      Until that final,
      Final Exhale.

Life takes its toll no matter what we humans do to foil aging. As the years accumulate, like the poet in "Struggle," we reflect on the past and future:

      White hair upon my head
      As the years of youth have fled
      The days not gentle nor kind
      To those that struggle with fate
      Or time.

Mr. Holshuer encourages readers to be "wise in their struggle" with life. Give generously of yourself, your time, and talent, as the poet does in this chapbook." - Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review