I’ve been a professional journalist for over 50 years now, a prose writer whose favorite form is the essay. But there are emotions that poetry seems to capture better than prose. Not unique emotions because there are no such things as unique emotions, only the emotions shared by all of us, shared by the whole world. For me, prose seems much more observational, more a reflection of what our senses present and whatever meaning we attach to that reflection. Poetry is more an attempt to understand our feelings by digging down into ourselves like a spelunker explores a cave. The cave is ourselves, and we try to discover—or more probably uncover—what's down there that makes us human. In these few poems I've tried to throw a small flashlight beam on a few of those places down there. 

G. Bruce Boyer is a noted author, editor, and men’s fashion writer with more than fifty years of experience. A former Men’s Fashion Editor at Town & Country, his work has appeared in Esquire, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Rake, and L’Uomo Vogue. He is the author or co-author of numerous books on classic menswear, fashion, film, and music, including True Style, Gary Cooper: Enduring Style, and Riffs: Random Reflections on Jazz, Blues, and Early Rock.