“36 Verses if You’re Bored During a Sunrise” by Will Sparber is illuminating in a myriad of contexts. This poetry collection includes luminescent photos of sunrise and light. A calm ocean, a Christmas tree, a lone shining lion relaxing as if to say:

”Ans I guess we’re all in your imagination, but the pain is very powerful,I’m not sure I can take it. It feels good, can we stay a little longer? I feel I’m getting stronger though I know I am a goner.”

Gears, sparks, light and dark: all are pixelated in this collection of poems in verse recalling the infinite differences in the grey.

Romance, life, love…each are addressed with poetic nuances of light and dark. As in verse #6:

“A spiral is the endlessness of traveling onward.”

And if that wasn’t powerful enough, verse #6 continues:

”It’s just inside your mind in and out like the ocean tide.”

At times this work is blunt, as in verse #7:

”With every sunrise comes rules. Nothing worth a piece of the sun is ever easy.”

Then comes poem #36 and its gratitude in platitudes:

”Pondering something gigantic even if it’s less than what’s between you and I forever.”

I read this book over a span of thirty - six days, not knowing if that was the author’s intent or not. Yet it flowed naturally in that time frame as each verse woke up in singular variants to a new dawn.

Definitely the next book for poetry lovers to pick up. I would also recommend this collection for multi-media artists who are practicing with themes of light and dark.