Slap by Rustin Larson

North of Oxford

By Lynette G. Esposito

Rustin Larson’s poetry volumeSlapoffers a wide variety of poetry lengths, forms and images. Published by Alien Buddha Press, it is ninety-two pages of insightful messages in poetic form.

For example, the poemFour Stepson page twenty-four, creates in thirteen stanzas, a situation of how many steps lead away from home when at the train stop and what it represents. Larson turns this image into the constant life journey of taking steps to all the doors that lead to or away from home.. Four steps, please. Four steps into the train’s platform in the middle of the night.. Four steps before you trip and fall down the basement. Four steps into the bower. of wild roses. Four steps in fever into your mother’s arms in the cool kitchen of your childhood. Four steps.Larson has used the image of four…

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