New England Needles: A Collection of Poetry

By Thomas H. Borysek

For fifty years, Thomas H. Borysek wrote poems and mailed them home.

A few at a time from 1967 to 2017, different poems to different people, sent from Chicago and later Wisconsin to the New England he never stopped returning to. Everyone who knew him held a handful of these cherished poems. Only Tom ever saw them all.

Tom captured the natural and spiritual world in precise, well-crafted poems that invite the reader to pause and reflect.

New England Needles gathers the whole set of poems for the first time and in the order he arranged them. A cricket under the hearth. A chickadee waiting out a crowd of sparrows for a single sunflower kernel. A new-fallen snow that pleases the young and delights the old. His father's voice while honing a knife blade.

Fifty years of paying attention, giving away one poem at a time.
Now, for the first time, here they all are at once.

In Seven Sections
Soliloquy of the Sea - A Blue Symphony with Clouds
A Robe of Winter Glaze - A Liquid Pomegranate Sphere
Planted Long Ago - Candles in Old Attic Windows
Fall Quickly to Catching Hands Below

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HC8M49RV
• ISBN13: 9798997172701
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Graphic Dojo
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"