The material collected in the text Movements: Poetry and Fiction is comprised of works of poetry and short fiction that span several epochs of the author's life. Indeed, the book which you presently hold represents the culmination of seven years of writing, editing, working, creating, and living. For this reason, the pieces featured here will not present the reader with a uniform, stagnant or frozen viewpoint. To the contrary, these works live and breathe in the multitudinous, cacophonous variety, which one encounters in daily experience...if one has the eyes to see.