The Wolf Can Smell This is My Acre - by Klyd Watkins (Paperback)

About the Book

An old man lies in his hammock flirting with the sky when an Eagle flying over the harpeth river catches his eye. He wonders if he can see from the riverside.

Book Synopsis

An old man lies in his hammock flirting with the sky when an Eagle flying over the harpeth river catches his eye. He wonders if he can see from the riverside its nest high in a tree on top of the bluff and slowly walks, staff in hand, across a pasture and down a cedar-crowded hillside to the river bottom. He scares three wild turkeys and a young whitetail buck, but a horned owl just watches him, silently.

Review Quotes

"Quirky, mysterious, and mystical, Klyd Watkins awakens us to the talking of trees to each other, the talking of birds in love, all of nature talking. To each other and to us. Hoy Dia! He's talkin hawktalk."

-Sharon Edens Doubiago, author of Psyche Drives the Coast

"Klyd Watkins makes the reader feel all of a sudden that the ordinary is a swirl of strangeness, charm, color and charge that habit has just barely kept from exploding into its proper mythic dimensions."

-Stephen Thomas, author of Journeyman

"I pick Klyd's poems up to be in the luxury of his moments, to experience them and then enjoy the long after spell of excellent detailling of and in his landscape; his lexical dexterity is perfectly timed. An excellent deep read."

-Karl Kempton, aurhot of poems about something and nothing