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Green Leaves: Selected & New Poems collects work from Eric Paul Shaffer’s seven volumes and thirty-five years of publication. On voyages around the Pacific Rim, from California to Okinawa to Hawai‘i, Shaffer’s sharp eye for natural and human detail delights and illuminates. A charter member of the “Clear Pool School,” Shaffer writes direct, profound, and often funny poems celebrating the American vernacular and encouraging a broader sense of the human, humane, ecological, and planetary.

Lāhaina Noon

Today, I’m a shadowless man.
The sun calls me into the street,
and I walk alone into the light of noon.
The moment has come.

I stand quietly on Front Street
balancing the sun on my head.
My shadow crawls in my ear
to hide in the small, dark world

of my skull. The sun illuminates
the shadow in my skin, and I shine
like a second moon, reflecting
all the light I cannot contain.

Eric Paul Shaffer is the author of nine books of poetry, including L¿haina Noon; Portable Planet; Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen; AMillion-Dollar Bill; Even Further West; and Green Leaves. More than 600 of his poems have been published in the USA, Australia, Canada, England,Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales. Shäer received Hawai'i's 2002 Elliot Cades Award for Literature, a 2006 Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Award for L¿haina Noon, and the 2009 James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry. He won a fellowship to attend the Summer 2006 Fishtrap Writers Workshop and was a visiting poetry faculty member at the 23rd Annual Jackson Hole Writers Conference in 2015. Shäer lives on the island of O'ahu.