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    </div> <div> The funeral     </div> <div> The man with his mother tattood on his arm     </div> <div> Wreckage     </div> <div> Other fine houses     </div> <div> Sore losers     </div> <div> A fish tale     </div> <div> Black Jack     </div> <div> Morning run     </div> <div> The rags of grief     </div> <div> Telephone call from The Home     </div> <div> The can of ackee     </div> <div> Initiation     </div> <div> Clearing a path     </div> <div> Driving Lesson     </div> <div> The time of death     </div> <div> Deathbed     </div> <div> First poems, last poems     </div> <div> The age of lead    </div> <div> Drought     </div> <div> In mourning      </div> <div> Our blue heaven     </div> <div> Dividing the estate     </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>From the Book:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Wreckage </B></div> <bR> <div> Trolley car tracks</div> <div> slice the woods</div> <bR> <div> like alien crop markings.</div> <div> They lead in a single direction,</div> <bR> <div> down to the lake.</div> <div> A Ferris wheel hunkers</div> <bR> <div> below the blue, </div> <div> explaining nothing,</div> <bR> <div> like wreckage</div> <div> on some watery moon.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Sam</B></div> <bR> <div> Sam has died</div> <div> who sang my name for years and years</div> <div> so long and beautiful across our yards</div> <div> and thereby is forgiven</div> <div> for making my first haircut</div> <div> so very, very short.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> ISBN 0-941053-84-9</div> <bR> <div> <I>Wreckage on a Watery Moon</I></div> <div> is a 68 page hand-sewn book with spine - $14.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE </div> <bR> <div> <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="Wreckage on a Watery Moon"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="05-26"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id128.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> </BODY>