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From the Introduction:
I have realized for a long time that I have a triangle foundation. The three sides are creativity, nature and people/relationships. It is a fluid triangle, with the length of each side varying in time. These poems all fall under the people/relationship side of my triangle. Thus YOU for a title. You as other, as part of me, as someone I haven’t met yet, as someone appearing in my dreams, as someone very distinct, as someone calling to me through time and space. You know who you are.
YOU is the third collection of some of my Daily Spontan-eous Poems that I’ve been writing and posting on Facebook since 8/22/14. The first two books, wild voices come when they will and there is only this moment were released in 2015 and 2017 respectively.
Once again, as was the case with there is only this moment, these poems were selected by a good friend, Gwen Zimmerman. Gwen read through 450 poems and selected these 70 poems as one grouping she titled “relationship.”
From the book:
so many walls separate
you from me
tradition, culture, prejudice
suspicion, fear, worry
lack of confidence
personal inhibition
let’s break down those walls
you from your side
I from mine
brick by brick
layer by layer
till nothing remains
between us
just wide open space
where we can join
eye to eye
hand in hand
heart to heart
YOU
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Ten Days in Huntington Wildlife Forest
From the Introduction:
In June of 2017 I stopped in at the Adirondack Interpretive Center in Huntington Wildlife Forest to visit my son, Chapin, a student at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Chapin was just starting a Summer internship at the forest. A few serendipitous events occurred which led to a 10-day Poet-in-Residence stay at Huntington Lodge. The poems in this chapbook are one of the results of that stay, in late October, 2017.
From the book:
Passing Through
underneath ground pine
underneath spruce, fir
maple, beech, birch
underneath russula emetica
underneath wintergreen
bunchberry, partridgeberry
underneath wood ferns
underneath Arbutus Lake
Rich Lake, Wolf Lake
underneath otter footsteps
deer footsteps, bear footsteps
my footsteps
underneath soil we all walk on
lies bedrock of ancient mountains
we are all just passing through
even mountains, too
Wild Fruit
partridge berry on woodland floor
small, mostly tasteless fruit
not bad, not good, but edible
wintergreen berries below Arbutus Lodge
red amidst shiny green leaves
slight wintergreen flavor
wild cranberries, purple, red
in boggy area of Rich Lake
northern tartness in each bite
though late autumn
still some wild fruit
left to pick
left to taste
Ten Days in Huntington Wildlife Forest
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