David wade
To Open A Window
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David L. Wade’s Todling into Oblivion doesn’t flinch. This is a poetry collection that stares down pandemics, loneliness, climate change and the absurdities of modern life, and somehow still finds room for wit, wonder, and quiet beauty.
David L. Wade’s Todling into Oblivion doesn’t flinch. This is a poetry collection that stares down pandemics, loneliness, climate change and the absurdities of modern life, and somehow still finds room for wit, wonder, and quiet beauty.
About The Author
David wade
David L. Wade writes like someone who’s been watching the world closely for a long time, because he has. His work blends the observational patience of a naturalist with the restless questioning of a philosopher.
In Todling into Oblivion, you’ll find pandemic diaries, urban vignettes and glimpses of far-off futures that feel unsettlingly close. Wade’s language shifts easily between the stark and the playful, the tragic and the absurd.
Whether he’s sketching a masked grocery line in the middle of COVID-19, imagining Stalin’s ghost wandering the aisles of a Kroger, or capturing the fragile promise of “Fresh Air, 2077,” his poems remind us that survival is as much about paying attention as it is about enduring.
About The Book
To Open A Window
is to open a vien
Themes that cut deep. Images you can’t shake.
This collection is Wade’s poetic record of a world in flux. Where pandemics disrupt daily rituals, where nature goes on indifferent to human fear, and where history folds in on itself in unexpected ways.
Inside you’ll find:
The Pandemic Unmasked – Poems that capture the claustrophobia, fear, and strange humor of living through COVID-19.
Human Struggles in Public and Private – From students returning to masked campuses to strangers adrift in their own cities.
Nature, Time and Mortality – Haikus, weather poems, and meditations on cycles of decay and renewal.
Playfulness with a Razor Edge – Wordplay, cultural mash-ups, and surreal imaginings that pull you in and then twist.
It’s a book you can open anywhere and land on a moment worth reading twice.
David wade
Articles & Blogs
Writing in the Age of Masks: Seeing the Human Face Again
For a few strange years, we all became half-visible. Eyes floating above cloth. Voices muffled. Smiles reduced to polite guesses.…
The Art of Witnessing: Why We Need Poets in a Crisis
When everything starts to break, people usually turn to the loud ones. The experts. The politicians. The optimists with charts…
Humor in Dark Times: Laughing at the End of the World
There’s a strange thing that happens when everything starts falling apart, people start laughing. Not everyone, not all the time,…
What readers say about the book
“Wade has a way of saying in 10 lines what most writers can’t say in 300 pages. I finished the book and immediately read it again.”
“Some poems made me laugh, some made me uncomfortable, and a few made me tear up. That’s a rare mix.”
As someone who lost loved ones to COVID, I was worried this would be too heavy. But Wade balances the darkness with sly humor and flashes of hope.”
