A yellow plate and plastic fork, In trash-bag tossed, Tell nothing of the past nor her Brief life, now lost. Instead a few sweet crumbs upon The plate remain, Remnants of what no longer is. We share the pain. -from "Crumbs on a Yellow Plate" In Footnotes, Hamilton area author and poet David J. Forsyth presents a lifetime's worth of poems, many of them dealing with the theme of human mortality. Forsyth has appended a brief footnote to each poem, recalling the circumstances of its creation and the challenges that he faced in writing it. The result is a collection that both readers of poetry and practising poets themselves will cherish.