Winter's cricket: poems

Greg Woodrow Lyons
Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:46:32 PDT

"Winter's Cricket is a collection of poems spawned from the memories of my childhood and my fascination, then and now, with bugs. Many of the poems deal with a boy growing up in the Suburban landscape and connecting himself through imagination to the insects around him. This combination often leads itself in the writing to violent ends for either the boy or the bugs; however, this collection seeks to undermine through the inclusion of the cabin poems, among other things, the notion that violence is always and necessarily bad, when oftentimes violence can lead to knowledge, understanding, and love"--Leaf iii