Smelling My Own Coffee

"Smelling My Own Coffee: Sixty-Five Moments of Thought" offers a book of answers that touches hopefully on every segment of life. Focusing on both verbal and nonverbal language, author Carol Samuels examines many aspects of emotions both secret and acknowledged-those that are universal, and those that are unfelt. She expounds on love, hate, loss, quiet encouragement, and faith, exploring the whos, whats, whens, wheres, hows, and just becauses needed to fully experience life and all it has to offer. Offering a sort of field manual for feelings, "Smelling My Own Coffee" attempts, through poems, statements, thoughts, and vignettes, to answer or give meaning to words that address the virtues, principles, and substances of life. Moonshine Moonshine shimmering on the

ocean's water

Moonshine sparkling like diamonds

on dew frosting the blue grass

pastures

Moonshine clear, cool, cold, colorless

yet shining in an air of peacefulness

Moonshine mellow almost shyly showing

one side only to those who peer

Moonshine hypnotically almost mockingly

exposing more than less....

Less than more than the night before