Between The Parallels – Extracts That Make the World More Palatable

A Genuinely Unique Opportunity

The 5th book in the series. This Rare Limited Edition is truly a genuine and unique opportunity to own. There are only 100 signed copies!  Unsigned chapbooks are available in the Standard Edition.

Chapbook Intro (as seen on the inside cover):

“Poets are villagers in a universe of words with small change in their pockets, hoping to find a different fate, a shore, an empire to master their illusions, allowing their fascinations to exist for even a little while… even I cannot look straight into the sun. I share these words and dreams and proclaim: ‘let my lines of human discourse fall upon your inner ear’, and to that intent, my regard is for you to be moved while I strike these pages with ink and chalk and tell you my poetry isn’t finished until the world has seen it.” ~R.D. Stone

 12 POEMS

• A Winter’s Dream
• And What Follows
• Fairly Outwards, the World is Not Empty
• Far From A City’s Cry
• Ink of Blood
• Like Broken Things of Stone and Glass
• Despite Us
• Quite Worth A Poet’s Dream
• Mutterings On A Winter’s Day
• Sidewalk Silhouettes
• Love Song With Respect  to Eliot
• Walk In Their Pain

Number of Pages: 32

Front and Back Covers: Pencil and Ink Illustrations

Cover and Back page: High-Grade Linen-Textured Paper

Pages: High-end Premium Paper

Dimensions: 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches

Quote as seen on inside back cover:

“Open your windows, your doors, your beacons… I’ll telegraph down from your hills, your chapels, your analogues and chant openly to Earth because belief has no time to hide as I groan my graffiti and prophetic songs… I sing a great voice, brooding in new visions as an orator of poesy, to bring transportation beyond your barricades, to speak into your ears from the tremble of failings, from the widening sky I’ll open secrets still buried… to join you, to revel again and again and have you hear a fresh-breath, to listen and listen again to the echo echoing again.” ~R.D. Stone

Dedication: This Book Is Dedicated To All Of Humanity

Stitching: Hand-stitched in 100% copper; no staples and created as a piece of art.

NOTE: 25 copies of each Rare Limited Edition chapbook are held back for immediate family and close friends. This leaves only 75 hand-signed, hand-stitched copies for purchase!  The Standard Editions and any subsequent editions will not be hand-signed, except at poetry readings, in bookstores or other venues.

Rare Limited Edition – $16.95. Each book is hand-signed, numbered, initialed and certified by R.D. Stone to verify authenticity.

Standard Edition – (unsigned). Available at $11.95

My desire is to deliver these chapbooks into your hands for posterity and safekeeping, small treasures from me to you.