Cloud on My Tongue

Cloud on My Tongue offers a lyric bouquet of variegated blooms culled from the poetry of Richard Olafson from the years 1979 to 1986. Metaphysical, romantic and surreal, the poems of this volume are fragrant with fresh awareness and deep insight. In language which is both supple and strong, the poet conveys the inner essence of human and natural experience. Here are poems that dance off the page and linger in the consciousness, bestowing immediate and repeated enjoyment.