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    612-822-4611

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Somewhere, a Playground

Somewhere, a Playground

Ferguson, Rich

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1957799331
ISBN13: 9781957799339
Publisher: Moontide Press
Published: Sep 15 2025
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Somewhere, a Playground is a symphony of survival, a lyrical reckoning with grief, resilience, and the echoes left behind. In a country where bullets haunt playgrounds and bars, where America's promises arrive postage-due, and history repeats itself like a jukebox stuck on the same track, these poems refuse to let the lost become mere ghosts. Instead, they summon color, song, and defiance-Nirvana echoes in a child's t-shirt, Brit punk moshes with honky-tonk, and a karaoke bar becomes a battleground for harmony. Wings are stitched to old wounds, voices rise from the static, and the hum of a heart built from lion's roar and amp feedback refuses to dim. This is L.A.'s heartbeat-a testament to the human spirit's refusal to break. Somewhere, a Playground is a raw and relentless testament to the human heart's resilience, still singing-hello, hello, hello-even in the dark.

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