In Black Ink

Poetry by Peter Harris

Includes Blues Poetry performance CD

The kids at the pool hall

Shake their heads at my bad shot

I say

I spent my formative years studying

When I should have been skipping school

Learning pool

They sigh

At my lousy education

And show me how my angle

Is all wrong

“The Kids at The Pool Hall” from In Black Ink.

About the author

Peter Harris, if that’s his real name, has too much education to be so weird. BA, MA, Université de Sherbrooke. It has been said that he has a voice like the voice of God (if God woke up with a hangover in a dumpster in Sudbury). He’s been known to ruin every social occasion, and consequently receives few invitations to dinner. A hardship for a poet. His second book, In Black Ink, is made up of the sorrow songs, the blues, from life’s great heartbreak. Having written it, we fully expect him to be more cheerful from now on. Travel writing and Web design pay the bills that poetry and music don’t cover.

ISBN 0-9698258-6-2

81 pages, Paperback, includes performance CD

Price $13.95 US