This selection ranges from adolescence to adulthood. For the juvenile samples I beg forgiveness and understanding. They were necessary efforts to discover my muse, my soul... my creative voice. Trustfully they demonstrate growth in character and talent. Ideally may they spark and enkindle flames of passion for that which we can never hold completely in this life. That is to say, the course of all souls being God, I pray my encounters with divine friends as well as myriad visible and invisible opponents to peace might somehow lift other spirits to embrace all that matters now or evermore.

Without love life is nonsense. Without love we are nothing.

Press on, adventurous pilgrims. Press on. When you've finished looking through the impoverished window of my soul may yours be brighter still.

Sincerely,

James David Holloway, Jr.

Juneteenth 1997, Dallas