N. Thomas Johnson-Medland 
Bathed in Abrasion 
Poems of Midlife and Erosion

If compromise and disappointment have a home, it is midlife. Here, suffering is like breathing. Longing is like dreaming. Standing midstream in the abrasive forces of life, author N. Thomas Johnson-Medland has learned to wade through the erosion and entropy of failure and incompleteness. And yet, in spite of these massive forces attempting to wear down the very vitality that sustains life, he has come to abide in the fact that life is amazing, wonder-filled, and truly awesome. In this book, Johnson-Medland teaches us that our place in the cosmos is full of joy. Our island is hope. Our vision is beauty. Let these forces do their best to wear us smooth. For in them, we can find refinement and grace.
Bathed in Abrasion invites us swim among the abrasive forces of life: wilderness, war, suffering, water–they are all a part of the poems of our lives. Watch for the meter of erosion and decay. Listen for the sound of sloughing off. For just as all things decay, they are also changing shape into a new becoming. Nothing is lost; everything belongs.

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Richard Lewis is an award-winning professional photographer whose passion is fine art landscape photography. He is also the owner of Burlington Press, a web design and marketing firm in Burlington, NJ. He and his wife, Vivian, live in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and have raised three grown children, Allison, Elliot, and Greg. His photography is available to view on his website www.richardlewisphotography.com.