Adam Had No Earthly Navel  poems by Mankh (Walter E. Harris III)
Cover Art by William Blake “The Ancient of Days” 1794.
5.5 x 8.5 - 74 pages, text printed on 100% recycled and chlorine-free paper.
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Mankh has put together an exciting, eclectic collection of poems in his newest book.
Alongside contemplative poems of the spirit, he takes us back to Woodstock, bringing
Hendrix's electric performance of "Star Spangled Banner" into the new millennium.
We're led through the fogs of trillions of days ("Diaphanous, You Shine!") to a lovely
grouping of Haibun and Haiku poems, where he combines poignant childhood
memories with quiet observation. Adam Had No Earthly Navel
is a book with many entrances into the universal inner lives we all share.

     - Barbara Southard, author of Remember

Stanzas from different poems...

Some say Jesus was immaculate
but Adam, firstborn,
had no Earthly navel.

And no artist got it spot on,
belly-buttons across the canvas,
the marble, (even the ceiling) of ages,
belying the heavenly conundrum.

How did it all start? Really now,
how did it ALL begin?

  *

“i saw Monet in the men’s room”
and left whistling,
the evening sun spreading through the trees,
lighting the dull road

  *

One man is missing the top of his top hat
but this is by design because
it allows his thoughts to fly to heaven like doves

lack is a state of mind
or a consequence of someone else’s stupidity
someone’s greed or fear coveting all the flimsy trinkets
or not allowing the water to flow from a mountain lake
to a stream
to a river
to the sea.

  *

clock sprung ahead
lunch tastes
the same

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