Survivals

These are poems written by a man who understood both ledgers and longing. Lewis V. F. Randolph was a businessman by trade, but poetry was his true calling, and this collection reveals what happens when practical wisdom meets spiritual longing. The verses move through natural landscapes with the careful observation of someone who noticed things, finding in rivers and mountains mirrors for human struggle. There is a persistent tension in these pages between life's turbidity and the peace that waits beyond it, between frowning walls and the open sky. Randolph writes of creation's glory and our small place within it, acknowledging death's shadow but ultimately suggesting that something wise and purposeful moves through everything. These are poems for readers who have lived enough to know that the world does not always explain itself, but who still listen for meaning in the silence between moments.