Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy

Over the course of a lifetime, we all experience catch-of-breath moments that stir exquisite awareness of life’s transience. Such fleeting moments we share with poet Christian McPherson and his space-suited avatar negotiating bumpy terrain. In this collection the meandering, often self-deprecating poet considers and records moments of truth and insight common to us all as he registers his joys and regrets, and raises rants in postured outrage. A refreshing and often humorous honesty prevails. As the dedication promises, these poems are for those who go to a job every day but dream of something more. McPherson delivers.

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Book 1
  • Poems Written While Travelling Around the Sun
    • Windless, Restless
    • Breathin
    • Mr. Silicon
    • Bubble Gum Bubble
    • Titanic
    • The New Magic.
    • Daydreaming on a Bar Stool
    • The Heartbroken Tavern
    • If the Shoe Fits
    • Ms. Know-it-all
    • Cosmic Kiss
    • Temporal Candy
    • Mental Cramp
    • Monster Mind
    • The Implicit Understanding Between the Cashier and Me
    • After a Few Glasses of Wine, Admiring the Christmas Tree
    • I Open
    • Missing Logic
    • Thanks for Your Time
    • Wearing Ghosts
    • The Android
    • Laying Awake Beside My Sleeping Wife
    • Trivial Knowledge
    • Seasonal Affective Disorder
    • The Origins of Swearing
    • The Screamer
    • My Neoclassical Babe
    • Sometimes
    • The Gooey Stuff
    • ’Till Death Do Us Part
    • The Howl and Whistle
    • Silly Game
    • The View from the Top
    • Mad Hatter
    • A Failure of Successful Pieces
    • The Commitment
    • Likely Not Newsworthy
    • Sunrise in Prince Edward County
    • Time Travelers
    • Transition to Autumn
    • Those Cotton Candy Clouds
    • Bench Pressing God
    • Fixed Star Canopy
    • Johnny Carson and the Universe
    • Monkey Thoughts
    • The Voices in My House
    • Hopping into the Van, on Acid, with my Father to go to McDonald’s
    • Thanksgiving Novocaine
    • As the Crow Flies
    • Everything for You
    • This Forest a Theatre
    • Metamorphosis
    • Sunrise in Ottawa
    • Work Planner
    • The Homeless Man Standing on the Corner
    • Seagulls in the November Sky
    • Magic Window
    • Eating Peanuts
    • Incomprehensible
    • Dirty Sponge
    • Me, a Gift
    • The Clocksmith
    • The Beauty of the Woods
    • It All Washes Up on the Shore
    • A Love Poem for My Children
    • The End
• Book 2
  • Poems Written on the Walk to Work
    • SPRING
      • Melt
      • While You Were Sleeping
      • Drunk on the Sun
      • Pizza Box
      • Copper Trees
      • High in the Sky
      • Bandaid Greetings
      • Responsible Citizen
      • Palpitations
      • Sign: Large Lot for Sale
      • Oz
      • The Deep Sadness of the Sky
      • Steamy Bus Streaks By
      • Evolution
      • Poor Visibility
      • Adolescent lawn
      • In Good Order
      • Circles
      • Machine Gun
      • Shameful
      • Comic Relief
      • My Giant Shadow
      • Spring Sprung
    • SUMMER
      • The First Day of Summer
      • Engaged with My Surroundings
      • War Machine
      • The Garden
      • Dress Code
      • The Secret Menu
      • The Shoe
      • An Ocean of Sky
      • Weeds
      • Steamy Hot Flesh
      • Empty Tree Branch Waits
      • As the Ash Trees Die
      • Walking to Work with My Dead Friend
      • Thought for Food
      • Empty Rum Mickey
      • Heat Wave
      • Melting Clouds
      • Dick and his Dog Spot
      • Pixelating Summer
      • What I Didn’t Know
      • Crows Perched on Crosses
      • Equinox
    • AUTUMN
      • The Young Leaf Forgets
      • All the Leaves Dying
      • God’s Halitosis
      • My Aunt Lost Her Sight
      • Dripping Faucet Sky
      • Hendrix Plays Dylan
      • The Banana Peel
      • My Sky a Teabag
      • Iridescent Leaf
      • I Walk Briskly Now
      • Profound Wet Sadness
      • A Dripping Faucet
      • Mailbox Graffiti
      • Walking Through Colour
      • The Wind Carries Me
      • Industrial Boots
      • Daylight Savings Time
      • Ideas Pour Out
      • The Grey Clouds Stab Me
      • Colour Power Punch
      • A Funny Tree Kicked.
      • A Black Bare Oak Branch
      • It is This Moment
    • WINTER
      • Liquid Paper
      • The Snow
      • Dominatrix
      • Mr. Saggy Balls and Ms. Suicide
      • Cold Jazz
      • Bitch Slapping the Sky
      • It Keeps Him Out of Trouble
      • Extra Christmas Lights
      • The Existential Quandary of Rudolph
      • The Two Christmas Trees of Kilborn Avenue
      • Winter’s Bony Hand
      • Lean Cuisine Wrapper
      • I Paint the City’s Dreams
      • Walking in the Aftermath
      • Snow Eats Consciousness
      • Bedside Table
      • Ken Goes Surfing
      • I Flew Up in the Air and Landed on my Ass
      • The Escape Artist
• Acknowledgments