Paddling The Peripherals – The Chase That Will Not Cease

A Genuinely Unique Opportunity.

The 6th book in the series. This Rare Limited Edition is truly a genuine and unique opportunity to own. There’s only 100 signed copies!  Unsigned chapbooks available in the Standard Edition.

Chapbook Intro (as seen on the inside cover):

“Poetry’s power moves the soul, the mysterious delightful examination which allows us to peek into the power of the creative mind and find the reflection of our own belonging. O Reader, for if the universe be full tonight… let my handprints bring contemplation, let there be timing in this ink and I beg not let it go, as the muse leads the fold, the trend of thoughts, the intraweaving prowess in these words colliding in the bloom of fate grown from root-stems… may my poetry come to find causation, a presence in this world of absolute illusion.” ~R.D. Stone

 16 POEMS

• Emblems For A Poet’s Coronation
• Los Angeles — bare thighs in my eyes or head in the clouds
• Beyond The Cobalt Fog That Does Delay
• Shade Carries Its Own Horizon
• I Arrived On A Dark Horse
• Toiling With Grapes in Secret
• Tilt Of Haste, WindSails Swaying
• We Were Born For Happiness
• Magnet!
• I’m Not As Brave As I Seem
• Lyrics From A Happy Islander
• Inflicted
• From The Breath Of My Hummingbird
• Silence Everyone – Death Delivers His Dangerous Smile
• Ailment of Permanency
• Two Voices At Work, I Hear Them Daily

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:

“Poets offer words to hopefully enlighten the audience, entertain them, leave them with an experience… may we endeavor to strive for a place and hopefully improve it as we live the metaphor and look out our windows to fathom the world.. .. for if beauty still sings in us, you and I have met and we have understood.” ~R.D. Stone

Dedication:  This Book Is Dedicated To All Poets, Past And Present, Who Have Inspired Me Over The Past 25 Years.

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

NOTE: The first 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 2^nd 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 certified hand-signed, numbered, initialed 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!