After a year working and refining my poetry with Tacoma’s Poet Laureate Bill Kupinse, I am proud to present my first official chapbook of poems entitled: World War Me. The compilation features poems from my four years at the University of Puget Sound, a couple poems that have appears in UPS’s Literary Journal Crosscurrents, and several never-before-seen works.

At the moment I have about 45 copies left, so I’d you’re interested in getting a hold of one, I’d be more than happy to get it to you. Just email me @ etrotter(at)themelononline(dot)com.

Below is a poem from the book that should be easy enough to digest. (I may post more of these in the future):

Now and Later, Revisited

I will always remember Juicy Juice

Eons ago

An Orange Crush mirage of

Cheeto dust stuck to our fingertips

Tonguing cherry flavored Pop Rocks

We drank Coca Cola and laughed

Bubbles scratching our throats

I cannot remember a day without Cheerios

A day without Gatorade, Yoplait or Goldfish

Times past, we would gather

Every man, woman and child

And in one symphonious voice shout out:

A large pizza please! Delivery!

But those days are as long gone as Pepsi Blue

A neutron Gobstopper collapsing

And setting before an ocean of Sunny Delight.

These Starbucks notions were not rooted in skyscrapers

No, they stemmed from the nooks of the Earth

Where Mom would make you Pop Tarts

For nothing, but your love

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