Jack Spula

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If you wanted anything,</div> <div> It was fast water, not the clouded pool</div> <bR> <div> You got --- But in the middle of your thoughts,</div> <div> A family drives up behind the warning signs.</div> <bR> <div> A man and woman and three noisy kids</div> <div> Took two right turns and now need a moment.</div> <bR> <div> In a flash, the kids are on a footpath upstream</div> <div> Toward an old beaver hut,</div> <bR> <div> But the wet clumps between</div> <div> The wooden ribs make it clear</div> <bR> <div> This is not the home it was.</div> <div> So after skipping a few flat stones</div> <bR> <div> And kicking some round rejects aside,</div> <div> Everybody piles back into the car.</div> <bR> <div> The kids are unhappy</div> <div> With each other and the parents are glad</div> <bR> <div> To be on the road, where</div> <div> Looking ahead is a necessity,</div> <bR> <div> But where it also</div> <div> Pays to check the mirror.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> A lifelong advocate for the Eastern Great Lakes and Northern Appalachian bioregions, Jack Bradigan Spula was trained as a pianist and musicologist, worked for decades as a community organizer and alternative journalist, and now wrestles daily with poetry's overwhelming truths - while trying to find language less grandiose than that, yet more precise. Born and raised in Niagara Falls, New York, Jack is a longtime Rochester resident and frequent pilgrim throughout the Adirondacks and the Southern Tier, Ontario and Quebec, Pennsylvania and New England.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Nobody but ancestors</B></I></div> <div> <B>is a 36 page hand-sewn chapbook  - $10.00. </B></div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER:</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A>     </div> <bR> <div> ON-LINE          <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U> </U></A>                              </div> <bR> <div> From the US      <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Nobody but ancestors"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="12-17"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> From Canada      <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Nobody but ancestors"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="12-17"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries           <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Nobody but ancestors"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="12-17"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>