Clarity from Chaos
by Louis Combe
$10.00, paperback, 84 pages
Published: November 2005
ISBN 1-880849-65-X

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Poets and poetry flourished throughout the world long before printing presses or even writing were invented. The pantoum form evolved from diverse oral poetic traditions. In form and substance, Louis Combe’s collection of pantoums draws on both ancient and modern sources.

I aspire to hope again
And know universal truths.
Polaris returns, self-named hope,
Hope, my final firewall.

Aspire to know universal truths;
Hope, certitude of truths;
Hope, my final firewall;
Hope, desire anticipating fulfillment.

Hope, certitude of truths:
Safe haven awaits behind a final firewall;
Hope, desire anticipating fulfillment;
The search for sanctuary, a lifelong labor.
—Louis Combe, "Firewall"