New Hues and Past Tales is a collection of poetry from the head & heart of Edmond Bruneau. His meandering musings include thinking about his elderly father, life events turned into passages, self-reflection and sensitive observation. Humorous, sad, thoughtful or silly - all written in Bruneau’s unique and compelling manner.

Poems include:

Things to Put in My Pocket Get it Right this Time Mini Miracles Saint Chicago I’ll Tell You What Happens Fireflies of Icarus First Kiss Summer in Color Grandmother’s Supper High as a Kite Carnival Glass Broken Wing No Longer Zeus Hoist Anchor Common Bond Sally, My Collie Wide Awake, 3pm Will Work for Food The World Grows Up Around Me 10:16pm on Dearborn Mom’s Basket Pal I Will Wait Raven’s Call Redmond in the Rain A Good Day for Fishin’ Shipwrecked Over Your Head Appomattox Awaits When Dreams Come True Seed of Inspiration Hard Knocks Equinox My Mirage Let Me In High Fidelity George Rise and Shine Dog Years Forest Lodge Empty Space Domini’s Metamorphosis Safe Harbor I Light the Fuse The Last Christmas Same Old Song High Bridge Park My Favorite Pirate Ides of My Essence Extra Credit I Would Have Told Her Gasping at Straws Earth Sojourned My Favorite Things Lilith Holiday Hubbub Safe and Insane Merits of the Marshmallow Picket Fence Facsimile Time Bandit A Flash in the Sky Richie Judas was a Surgeon Spirits of Siren The Pomegranate Diet Picnic Snake River Circus Odonota Piecing it Together Old Redmond The Strangest Everything One More Day Burial of His Father on His Third Birthday Trapped in Doldrums Trouble with Fire The Earth is Flat The Old Red Barn Never Go to Bed Hungry Time to Leave Time and Temperature Saved Your Home Two Valentines Where are you Carol Morrison? Just a Dream When I Write Challenger Welcome to the CIA Spring Break Winter Adieu Strumpet Tremolo The Paper Mill Ambidextrous When Angels Laugh The Path With a Whistle, Whiskey and Why Green Beans A Bitter Pit Choice Naked Bird Morning, Without You The Next Step Four Agreements The Me I’d Thought I’d Be