"Leaves -a collection of poems"- is the third book by the author. His other titles include "Nebulae Cocktails - love songs of epiphanies" and "The Desert Stones - a poem." The title poem is about aging as transformation: "I'm shedding my old life leaf by leaf," the author says, "Limbs, down turned with Winter, growing light again. One by one the pages are not turned, but torn and tossed aside." As the branches are soon bare, the author extends the metaphor: "My limbs are reaching star to star, to find in darkness lush with loss the hope of seeds beneath the snow." While mostly written in free...