Closer in the Rearview
are poems captured in the cadence of Spoken Blues. These pieces were carefully prepared like gumbo, the ingredients: Blues, Jazz, R&B, and Hip-Hop, and the incessant echoes in the backdrop. Spoken Blues are the words wrestling in the spirit of a poet. This collection reflects natural evolution. The more we seek to change, the more it becomes like an exercise of scraping a stout myriad of layers. At times in life, we discover the person we are running from in our past is also the person that exists in the future. This book is about the person trapped in the center, which in reality is the moment, and the challenge to be present and stay rooted in it.