Cirrus@Austlit

'"Stop words are those words which are so common that they are useless to index or use in search engines or other search indexes," says Wikipedia.

Regardless, the poet deftly uses these useful words to make meaning of our lives. Each poem uses a stop word as a point of poetic departure, around which he sews a context, impressionistically, sketchily, pencilling a mood, a feeling, tension between the sexes. Relationships are at the heart of his poems, love, death, time, the possible, the impossible, the probable, the emotive, in short sensibilities.' (Publisher's website)