Seven Days of Ashes

Seven Days of Ashes: "A few hallmarks of Alan Patrick Traynor's poetic voice are an astounding metaphoric mastery, phrases that are as focused as a cipher, keen verbal alacrity, and expressions that are highly-textured, and knit together with Universal compassion. We peer through windows into shadowy labyrinths where we are danced back into the light and then returned to familiar ground. Traynor lifts us to such heights and depths; we experience a different vibration and come away changed by it, able to channel a wider bandwidth of humanity. Poignant yet palpable, impossible to shake. Achingly beautiful, like a sweet, unsung symphony heard only by a Master, who rises up to record each note in reverent obeisance. Like a clear and translucent piece of glass, you can peer through it and focus your sight enough to see both light and shadow."