Before the Wind

'A shriek in black ink down a diary's page." from "Passage: March 9, 1936."

'Savoring the perversity of power, I opened my hand." from 'Adventuring"

'In that world within our world
The explosion of Armageddon " from 'A Conundrum Visited."

'Oh Greedy Race to want much more than human " from 'Speed"

'Thirty-four million miles apart,
Through space so narrow that
Your passing's like a kiss."
from 'On Seeing Mars" (August 27, 2003)

All the elements of fine ballads, free and rhymed verses, sonnets, and a villanelle are present in this volume. The past collides with the present in surprising images, and the vivid future is both possible and probable.