Evan Quitelle has done it again. This compilation of poetry is a beautiful work of art. Sensual, sultry and sexy Signals of Smoke and Ash seduces with every verse. You will enjoy a romantic interlude starting with the title of each poem, and each line of wordplay is foreplay. Evan Quitelle’s vision and creativity is brilliant. His words of love and affirmation are intense and powerful as evidenced in the selection “Dwelling on the Past.” / I miss the water near Yesterday how we drank with laughter and you taking a dip / I miss the wilderness with wild honey how I borrowed from you and you paying me back / I miss coming down off of our high horse and casting shadows on the sundial / I miss our native tongues your cardinal points and filling the feel of you / I miss standing just outside the frame digging your scene / I miss captured in brief laced hips and satin lips pursed for satisfaction / I miss the pilgrimage south the middle passage how you compass rose and I nourished the bloom / I miss you breaking the fall when I reached out and I held on to holding you / Signals of Smoke and Ash will take you to the plateau and then make you soar. This volume of poetry is an intimate caress.

Amethyst Junction She is the birth of a flower and I am committed to her bloom I am committed to the butterfly even while she is in her cocoon I am committed to her clouds because surely she is high enough to reign I am committed to the chameleon though her season is apt to change I am committed to healing I know it is only a bruise I am committed to cerulean, indigo and all shades of her blues I am committed to the scars they are her marks of beauty I am committed to watering her fields for I am a duty I am committed to the groundhog leaving her without a shadow of doubt I am committed to Brie oh to see her ripen so devout I am committed to the heart I am her word of function I am committed to Lavender for she is the amethyst junction I am committed to the mirror image for it is a reflection of her I am the cypress knee in Eden committing to the gardener

Evan Quitelle Brockington is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has spent over 27 years in the United States Navy and is still enlisted as a Navy Master Chief Petty Officer. He has his Master of Arts Degree in Education and Human Development Magna Cum Laude from the George Washington University. He currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia.