Dreams from the Red House (Felling Difficult Trees), by Shawn Keller

Poetry, chapbook, 48 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Dreams from the Red House (Felling Difficult Trees) is an exploration of time and place through the pulse of abandoned landscapes. Past, present and future come to bear on the author's vision of a Maine past, or present, or future. Or neither. Or both. Time travel has its own designs. You'll see.

It is as the boy says, "Art is part heat, part light, part truth, part lies." Emotion must bring illumination, yet every truth exposes another lie. Which is where the dreams come in. It is said that hypnotism is simply an agreement to dream together.

So come dream with me.

Shawn Keller is a poet living in Brunswick, Maine. As a young man he studied history with the heart of a geographer, and then left New England to explore America. He rode out four hurricanes in Florida, and dipped his toes in the Pacific next to the Santa Monica pier. His poetry is concerned with a sense of place, and the never- ending journey we embark upon to find that mythical place we call “home”. His work has appeared in The New Guard and The Northern New England Review, and online at Literati Magazine, The Rising Phoenix Review and The River.