Confessions of a Lonely Mystic: small talk - is a glimpse into a personal journey towards finding God, love and a place in this world. It is a collection of poems that were written during years of years of searching for a love to be, a way to help facilitate constructive and beneficial changes for this world and develop a personal relationship with God. Within its pages, you the reader travels from the subways of New York City to the heights of Masada in Israel. You journey into the hidden recesses of an ever expanding heart longing for an elusive romance and communion with deity. You listen to the dialogue within an ever active creative imagination and decisive intellect which examines the minutia of everyday life to find hidden meaning and cryptic purpose in the slightest occurrence. Your senses, your sensitivities and your sensibilities will walk away craving for more. Confessions of a Lonely Mystic small talk is a "cookbook" of poetic appetizers that awaken the palate and create a longing for an additional feast of feelings, thoughts and desires. Confessions of a Lonely Mystic short talk, a collection of short stories continues providing nourishment for the soul with the Portraits of a Lonely Mystic series setting the table for the main course yet to come. Please sit down at the table. Remove the napkin and place it on your lap. Move the chair even closer and pour yourself a glass of refreshing, inspiring, comforting, exciting and revealing glimpse into the heart, mind, spirit and soul of a lonely mystic: Misha Ha Baka. Enjoy your meal!