ABOUT Peter Holland
Peter Holland is a native San Antonian. He has been writing poems and stories since high school. Over the last decade or more he has been a regular at many local open mike readings. He is an active member Unlimited Horizons Writer’s Workshop, San Antonio Poets Association, and Alamo Area Poets Association. He is a member of the Poetry Society of Texas. He has been published in several local anthologies, the local newspaper, and The Poet. He holds a Bachelors in History from UTSA.
A Year in South Texas
by Peter Holland
ISBN: 978-1-931247-67-2 $7
A Year in South Texas is Peter Holland’s view of the land
he grew up with. In lush romantic tones, redolent of the
treatment of nature in the lake country by the earlier English romantics, Holland presents his Texas: a land
of extremes, of stark beauty, from barren winters to
summer droughts to the delicate unfolding of Texas
wildflowers.
Texas Still Life
The beetle,
metallic green,
walks across
the yellow-white caliché,
steps into the shade
of a lobey old Prickly Pear.
The Mockingbird,
sleekly silver,
strikes a pose
beside a lemon yellow flower.
The green cactus,
her yellow flower,
and the silver bird
stand out
on the green field
washed in blue
splashed with crimson.
Tomorrow the dozers will come
civilizing chaos.
Copyright © Pecan
Grove Press,
1997-2003
For further information contact
H. Palmer
Hall.
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Most recent revision
November 11, 2003
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