Paler wrote a number of poetry collections during his lifetime. The poems, which appear as definitions , are rather like Haiku in their intensity and condensed descriptions of a feeling or a moment, they offer us an open door into the larger world of internal reflection. read one a day before meals or lingering over coffee
Beautiful short poems, full of thoughts I had thought before in different words. I especially loved Definition of Me, Definition of a Tear, Definition of an impossible alternative, and We Have Time.