The Tao is None of Your Business

A poem may have no driving force other than its own willingness to stumble candidly into moments as they arise, with unguarded awareness and no clear design. As the wordplay begins the intentions take form and that is the dance. Both wonder and calamity beckon: it is a hazard and a romance, a mischief and a drama, it dabbles in crisis, rests in curiosity. This collection, the first from author G. Paul Randall, includes over seventy pieces of poetry, Haiku, and prose, written from 2018-2020 and collected here during the imposed isolation of a global pandemic you may have heard about.