New Hues and Past Tales is a collection of poetry from the head & heart of Edmond Bruneau. His meandering musings include thinking about his elderly father, life events turned into passages, self-reflection and sensitive observation. Humorous, sad, thoughtful or silly - all written in Bruneau's unique and compelling manner.

Poems include:

  • Things to Put in My Pocket
  • Get it Right this Time
  • Mini Miracles
  • Saint Chicago
  • I'll Tell You What Happens
  • Fireflies of Icarus
  • First Kiss
  • Summer in Color
  • Grandmother's Supper
  • High as a Kite
  • Carnival Glass
  • Broken Wing
  • No Longer Zeus
  • Hoist Anchor
  • Common Bond
  • Sally, My Collie
  • Wide Awake, 3pm
  • Will Work for Food
  • The World Grows Up Around Me
  • 10:16pm on Dearborn
  • Mom's Basket
  • Pal
  • I Will Wait
  • Raven's Call
  • Redmond in the Rain
  • A Good Day for Fishin'
  • Shipwrecked
  • Over Your Head
  • Appomattox Awaits
  • When Dreams Come True
  • Seed of Inspiration
  • Hard Knocks Equinox
  • My Mirage
  • Let Me In
  • High Fidelity
  • George
  • Rise and Shine
  • Dog Years
  • Forest Lodge
  • Empty Space
  • Domini's
  • Metamorphosis
  • Safe Harbor
  • I Light the Fuse
  • The Last Christmas
  • Same Old Song
  • High Bridge Park
  • My Favorite Pirate
  • Ides of My Essence
  • Extra Credit
  • I Would Have Told Her
  • Gasping at Straws
  • Earth Sojourned
  • My Favorite Things
  • Lilith
  • Holiday Hubbub
  • Safe and Insane
  • Merits of the Marshmallow
  • Picket Fence Facsimile
  • Time Bandit
  • A Flash in the Sky
  • Richie
  • Judas was a Surgeon
  • Spirits of Siren
  • The Pomegranate Diet
  • Picnic
  • Snake River Circus
  • Odonota
  • Piecing it Together
  • Old Redmond
  • The Strangest Everything
  • One More Day
  • Burial of His Father on His Third Birthday
  • Trapped in Doldrums
  • Trouble with Fire
  • The Earth is Flat
  • The Old Red Barn
  • Never Go to Bed Hungry
  • Time to Leave
  • Time and Temperature
  • Saved Your Home
  • Two Valentines
  • Where are you Carol Morrison?
  • Just a Dream
  • When I Write
  • Challenger
  • Welcome to the CIA
  • Spring Break
  • Winter Adieu
  • Strumpet Tremolo
  • The Paper Mill
  • Ambidextrous
  • When Angels Laugh
  • The Path
  • With a Whistle, Whiskey and Why
  • Green Beans
  • A Bitter Pit
  • Choice
  • Naked Bird
  • Morning, Without You
  • The Next Step
  • Four Agreements
  • The Me I'd Thought I'd Be