Secrets, Scrawls and Strays - And Other Virgin Verses, by Ronald C. McGilvray, in his debut collection, takes one on a poetic journey into a marriage of the light and dark, and their gray offspring that populate the lonely corners of a world of color. Secrets, Scrawls and Strays delves into the past, present and future of characters off the grid or just plain off. It's an album of snapshots of the downtown desperate, the lost dreams of dreamers, while tossing in a generous dose of drama and a degree of whimsy. Secrets, Scrawls and Strays, the poem, speaks of the day in the life of a couple of...