The Melting Potential of Fire

"The Melting Potential of Fire" is a contemplation of love within the challenges of freedom and competing solitudes. This lyrical collection of poems is part love letter, part travelogue. Set against the glowing landscape of Italy, it is full of the sights and sounds of the cities of Amalfi, Salerno, Furore, Capri, Rome, Florence and Incisa.

The author was reading Rainer Maria Rilke's "Letters To A Young Poet" during these travels, and Rilke's meditations on solitude influence these verses, illuminating the possibility and practicality of a long term love relationship lived primarily within a crucible of passion, and a belief that passion gives lovers the ability to transcend the natural barriers of solitude.