The Totem: And Other Poetic Musings

Edmond Bruneau creates another delightfully digestible collection of poems in his third book called The Totem. This 131 page edition includes 105 poems and one short story. Deep thoughts, masterful wordplay and uncanny clarity combines to make this volume of work both contemplative and compelling. Enjoy a poem or two for a quick break - or dine on the whole poetic meal in one sitting.

Individual poem titles include:

The Totem

In Our Nature

Perception is Reality

I Think

Costco Dogs

As the Crow Flies

Next Step

Pneumonia

The Easterner

The Paths We Choose

Good Old Days

No More Cats

Invisible

Debeaking

Want of a Nail

Category 4 Vacation

Sacred Heart Samuri

An Author’s Apparatus

Pray for Rain

Chameleon

The Attic

You Will Be OK

Camping Our Way to Reno

Colors of Joy

Ginger

Public Meeting

Warped Wisdom

Freedom

Bit of a Pickle

Love

Cabbages and Kings

News from the Raven Haven

Something’s Brewing

Masked Marauders

Beam Me Up

Florida Euphoria

Harvest Adieu

Chinook

Rhymes with Orange

Giving Up Smoking

An Endless Summer Day

Nine Lives

In a Drawer

Hollidaze

Pig Leather

Extravagance

Perspective

Just My Age

Cotton Candy

Sotto Mare

Pollyanna

The Kissing Disease

Coloring Outside the Lines

Flower Child

Knack of Lacking

A Novel Approach

Medium Well

Selling Like Hot Cakes

Puyallup Fair

The Little Tramp

The Bitterroot

Escape

No Place Like Oz

Small Miracles

Back Porch

Gratitude

Geometry

Learning from Regrets

Harry Truman

Once They’ve Seen Paree

The Letter

Be Gone, Winter

Spring Forward

Staying in Bed

My-gration

New Year

Terra Cotta Heart

It’s Quiet Now

Purgatory

Mirror Mirror

The Great Pumpkin

Trump

Warm White Light

Homeward Bound

Hideaway

Two to Tango

Animus

Hot Water

Whisper in the Wind

Dichotomy Debris

Good Grief

Hamlet Heartbreak

Futile Fantasia

Haunted

Journey to Humus

Simba

Syzygy

Peacock

Powerless

Stroke of Luck

Slender Circumstance

Spring Fever

Mordant Memories

Ode to the Commode

A Song of Solitude