Trace Lines: Poems and Images : Trace Lines Press : 9780648243106 : 0648243109 : 31 May 2018 : This book is a collaboration, a celebration of words and images. Combining artistry in poetry, image making and painting, the book explores through word and abstraction, responses to themes of family and connection, travel and memory, and the significance of the trace lines we leave in our individual and collective lives. The poems and abstract images attempt to make sense out of the unusual or incidental. They speak to each other, finding safe keeping from otherwise meaningless traces. David's first collection of poems are, at heart, relational and quizzical observations of the peculiarities of daily living. The haiku form holds the ephemeral and detached experience of travel while sonnets and formal poetic structures are reserved for more serious subjects. Lindi's accompanying images comprise photographic lines, patterns and obscure details, as well as explorations of abstraction in pai