Whistling Underwater
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It is the birds we rely upon To keep the sky from falling On our cloaked compulsions. -- AWS from “The Sweet Life” Al Starkey does so very well what each of us struggles with. He holds the poignancy and the humor of human experience in his hands at the same time. He invites us to feel intimacy with each other, with Nature, and in solitude. He plays with our paradoxes, like whistling under water, and invites us to share his awe and wonder at the mystery that he more than suspects.
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It is the birds we rely upon
To keep the sky from falling
On our cloaked compulsions.
—AWS from “The Sweet Life”
Al Starkey does so very well what each of us struggles with. He holds the poignancy and the humor of human experience in his hands at the same time. He invites us to feel intimacy with each other, with nature, and in solitude. He plays with our paradoxes, like whistling underwater, and invites us to share his awe and wonder at the mystery that he more than suspects.
About the Author
Albert Starkey is a past winner of The Atlanta Review’s International poetry competition, a winner of the International Library of Poetry’s Open Poetry Contest and most recently, a winner of the 2016 Carriage House Poetry Prize of Tiferet Journal. His poetry has been published in several journals, magazines and two anthologies. It has also been exhibited in Cape Cod art galleries and twice aired on NPR’s WCAI, Poetry Sunday in 2017. He is the author of four other collections of poetry titled, On Eireann’s Edge, Moonrise Soon, Blue Music and Closer. Al and his wife, Susan have lived for extended periods in their much beloved Ireland over the past fifteen years. They currently reside in the village of Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts.