The Fly in Autumn is a nuanced work with an absurdist twist in which recognizable landscapes - of North Vancouver quays and piers and harbour fog - are sometimes irrevocably altered by "water-light"; into places of the mind alive with "the hundred thousand thoughts everyone collects in a day."; Using language both tender and ironic, Zieroth's poems range from the cockiness of flight to the inevitability of decline. Still, the poet remains alert to the re-emergence of "his boyhood hope: to be brave, to ship out, to learn to sleep on waves."; David Zieroth's poetry has appeared in dozens of anthologies and he has written eight books including How I Joined Humanity at Last, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1999. He taught at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC, for 25 years before retiring and founding the Alfred Gustav Press. He lives in North Vancouver.