Poems by James DePreist
with an afterword by William Stafford

University of Portland Press
Portland, Oregon

Excertps below courtesy of the author

THE NIGHT IS BRIGHTER
than the day
by an inner light
I glimpse a world far more brilliant
than any sun
and travel paths
which day erases

Excerpt no. 2

I CONFESS
to being less
than myth would
make me wish
were true
and from the single map
of my terrain know alone
the sad-deep caverns of regret
lying in he shadow of camouflage
of peaks
of
power