Selections from "Preowned Odysseys and Rented Rooms"

Abstract

I selected these poems from the manuscript of “Preowned Odysseys and Rented Rooms," my poetry collection-in-the-making. It records a pilgrimage where mortality and mobility characterize the wayfarer’s condition. He makes a journey that ultimately leads nowhere, and he travels second class in used conveyances to reach his destination. But, as he saunters along, the pilgrim himself changes, not his destination. He finds the end of the road in each step of the way and becomes the one he is.