Aurora

In Aurora, his first published collection, author and poet Wayne Zade reflects on relationships, memories, and life experiences that can shape an individual. He explores the unique time of middle and later adulthood, when parents age and pass away, people reflect on lost loves, and individuals gain new perspectives on events of the past. Lyrical and introspective, this poetry collection presents verses examining the theme of the power of family, sports, music, and media in American culture. ON QUIET, SUNNY STREETS That was the summer I spent thinking of nothing but music everyday. And listened many blue hours, skies of piano just outside the window. And far away, but in America, people were shot, in offices, on the street, in schools, day care centers. You could watch them all many times on TV, survivors' faces retelling the rage, and wonder how, in cool rooms on quiet, sunny streets, tremolos aching everywhere in the house, anyone thinks of anything but courage.