In Catch the Silent Silver, Jim Wilsford offers a collection of poems organized around the themes Of Love, Of Life, and Of Youth. The poems, which may be loving or fun, realistic or painful, physical or metaphysical, each touch true moments and pure images of life.
Wilsford combines Beauty and Truth in extended metaphors. Symbol and image merge in lines such as those from the title poem: ." . . to catch/ The silent silver of the sun's walk/ And edge the gray of the white gull's Wing." Whether formal or informal, free or blank verse, form matches meaning.
Catch the Silent Silver includes several dramatic and narrative poems to portray and explore the meaning and beauty of life. The work also includes poems that are epigrammatic, reflective, and emotional.
In poetry as in life, Wilsford follows the conclusion of the last poem of Catch the Silent Silver: If you wake to a zigzag day,
You must take the zigzag way.
