Cloud on My Tongue clearance from "Domestic Manners of the

from "Domestic Manners of the Americans"

So too with our brains: they have evolved a specialized capacity for exchanging signals with other brains--they are designed to be social

It just might come true

and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship

a malfunctioning alarm

Cloud on My Tongue clearance from "Domestic Manners of theCloud on My Tongue offers a lyric bouquet of variegated blooms culled from the poetry of Richard Olafson from the years 1979 to 1986. Metaphysical, romantic and surreal, the poems of this volume are fragrant with fresh awareness and deep insight. In language which is both supple and strong, the poet conveys the inner essence of human and natural experience. Here are poems that dance off the page and linger in the consciousness, bestowing immediate and