FootHills Publishing    |   home Books 2005   |   Finger Lakes Anthology   |   In the Arms of Words   |   Coffman   |   Machan   |   Low   |   Roche   |   Lehmann   |   Vincent   |   Ferroggiaro   |   Holmes   |   Orr   |   Lupinacci   |   Schwartz   |   Hoey   |   Allen   |   Lowenstein   |   Janus   |   Martin   |   Zegers   |   Meierjurgen   |   Holley   |   Hyder   |   Bashkirew   |   Miller   |   VanHeusen   |   Razran   |   Slechta   |   Costanzo   |   Ordering by Mail   |   Contact FHP Four Autumns Gregory Miller "Gregory Miller is a fresh new talent with a great future."                                 - Ray Bradbury In Four Autumns, his first full collection of poetry, Gregory Miller provides a fascinating series of insights into four different arenas of the human condition, all mirrored through the season of greatest transition: Autumn.  As the leaves change on the trees, beautifying the world through their final acts, Autumn culls up fond memories and present anxieties, stinging loss and clarity of vision.  These poems, a mosaic of experience, do likewise. Gregory Miller's first novel, Big Cicadas, was published in 2003.  His work has appeared in a number of national publications, including Distant Echoes, Rosebud, and the anthology In The Arms of Words.  His first chapbook of poetry, Snow and Sand, was printed by FootHills Publishing in 2003.  In 2004 he served as a consultant on Houghton Mifflin's The Lord of the Rings online curriculum guide.  He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Vera, where he teaches high school English. CONTENTS I      What We Want Now      The Campfire      Back Again      Home      Seventeen and Sunday      Old Journals      Electric Lights      II      Between Storms      The Shelf      Seasons Sown      Wake-up      Outside      A Sudden Change of Pace      You Should Know Better      Night Worries      …Day In, Day…      A Wish      The Wind      III      Evening Tide      The Harvest      She is 90      University Art      The Shade      Family Photos      Reunion      Graduation Day      Routine Waves      The Red Satchel      First Frost      Out      The Visit      IV      The Book Sale      Old Pages      Have Another      Parade Day      The Apple Tree      In Armstrong County      1946      Above Town      Grandpa's Shirts      From the book: Home Where Fall is always gentle with welcome gusting winds blowing kaleidoscope leaves down in rainbow rain. Grandpa's Shirts From pine drawer Grandpa's shirts emerge, Twenty years lost, smelling of mothballs, Treasures found during Grandma's Spring Cleaning. She takes them out slow, no doubt sensing Possibility in perfect folds, starch, collars pressed - Burdens of loss unburied, sorrow dusted off, Yet a chance to pass on what was once her pride, To reforge fragments of old life for new. "Do you want these?" she asks.  "I doubt they'll fit." I sit, try one on, starch crackling out creases, Certain sleeves will hang down below hands, Tails sway below knees - a blanket, a tent, A billowing shirt-shaped robe. Great sands of years made Grandpa giant: Huge hands, broad shoulders, he filled all rooms With the nature of my awe, The stature of my love. But now shoulders stretch cloth, Elbows strain seams, neck nape Bulges beneath collar buttons pulled taut, Two decades of growth confined and Fighting against the limits of stationary linen. "I didn't think so," Grandma says, face pale. "Goodwill tomorrow - They'll have to go." "No," I say, surprising her and me. They're still too big, these shirts too small. I take them all. "Someday I'll grow." I shut the drawer. "Some day they'll fit."  We shut the door. ISBN:  0-941053-80-6 Four Autumns is a 68 page hand-sewn paper book with spine - $15.00 (Click to see Greg Miller's Other FootHills Release, Springfed Chapbook #20 - "Snow and Sand") TO ORDER  ON-LINE      To order through mail click here.