From the Snake Pit to the Shore

From the Snake Pit to the Shore

The menacing dance of a tweaker, his head swinging with the weight of a wrecking ball, his eyes in waking REM, each with a dream of its own. From the Snake Pit to the Shore is a 100 page collection of loners, artist friends, and street art visions heard but not seen. These poems surrender to memory, addiction, and redemption, drifting from a Murphy bed to a Las Vegas parking lot, or outside the last bookstore at closing time. Richardson writes like someone walking the graveyard shift of his own life, illuminating it from within. Douglas Richardson lives in Santa Ana, California, with his wife Jen and cat Wes. His poetry has appeared in The Alien Buddha Gets Isolated & Weird, The American Journal of Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, Black Poppy Review, Cajun Mutt Press, The Ekphrastic Review, Hobo Camp Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Medusa’s Kitchen, The Nervous Breakdown, The New Verse News, The Rye Whiskey Review, Straight Forward Poetry, Trouvaille Review, Poetry Super Highway, and others. In 2013, he won the Poetry Super Highway contest with “Notes from the Graveyard Shift.”