Poets on Peace 10

<BODY BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD" TEXT="#080000" LINK="#FFFFFF" ALINK="#000400" VLINK="#FFFFFF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC3300" FACE="Arial" ><B>FootHills Publishing</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT> |   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FootHills Publishing"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id140.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Submitting to FootHills"><U>Submitting to FootHills</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poets on Peace Books"><U>Poets on Peace Books</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id136.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poets on Peace 4, 5"><U>Poets on Peace 4, 5</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poets on Peace 6, 7, 8"><U>Poets on Peace  6, 7, 8</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id85.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poets on Peace 9"><U>Poets on Peace 9</U></A>   |   <B>Poets on Peace 10</B>   |   <A HREF="id124.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poets on Peace 11"><U>Poets on Peace 11</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id137.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poets on Peace 12"><U>Poets on Peace 12</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id138.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poets on Peace 13"><U>Poets on Peace #13</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id139.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>Ordering by Mail</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact FHP"><U>Contact FHP</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Poets on Peace #10 - Like A Dry Land - Vincent F. A. Golphin</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3622cc80.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="456" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Vincent F. A. Golphin teaches Creative Writing, Literature and Cultural Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is an award-winning writer and journalist, who continues to freelance and is managing editor of <I>about …time</I>, a national news and feature magazine based in Rochester, New York. </div> <bR> <div> For more than 25 years, his articles, poems, essays and stories have appeared in a wide range of publications that include national magazines such as <I>Christianity Today, National Catholic Reporter, Emerge, Washington Living,</I> and <I>Upstate New Yorker</I>; literary journals such as <I>Bridges, Drylongso, Fyah, Ishmael Reed's Konch Magazine, Mental Satin</I> and<I> Southern Poetry</I>. </div> <bR> <div> His books include <I>Life and Other Things I Know: Poems, Essays and Short Stories</I>, <I>Take Two, They're Small</I> and <I>African-American Children's Anthology, African-American Stories: My First Treasury, and Grandma Loves You: My First Treasury.</I> </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="364d0e70.jpg" border=0 width="208" height="231" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>LIKE A DRY LAND</B></div> <bR> <div> Like the scorched earth of the Hebrew poet</div> <div> my heart and soul thirsts </div> <div> for that fevered soil</div> <div> of mystery, legend and strife</div> <div> where Jesus, Allah and Jehovah</div> <div> stand astride and smile upon their children</div> <div> who daily rend their legacies like a sinner's robes</div> <div> in feuds fueled by the blood in their bones.</div> <bR> <div> I look at the little they have left behind,</div> <div> that which the hand of god </div> <div> set in place </div> <div> stark and silent </div> <div> to teach me an eternal truth -  </div> <div> politics is the least permanent reality.</div> <div> human wants and desires blow about </div> <div> more swiftly and easily than the billions of sand grains</div> <div> before me, and when all the ideas </div> <div> of this age are past</div> <div> stony piles and creeping dryness </div> <div> remain to cover the loss of lives </div> <div> past lies and betrayals</div> <div> the efforts of finite fingers to fashion</div> <div> paradise on a tortured land they have betrayed.</div> <bR> <div> I leave with but a glimpse, a</div> <div> notion, that even to understand </div> <div> the language of my hosts</div> <div> is not to know that place</div> <div> the lesson of its truth </div> <div> is written on the soul.</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> Hand-stitched chapbook.</div> <div> Eight Dollars  $8.00 </div> <bR> <div> ISBN 0-941053-91-1</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  Like A Dry Land  ON-LINE</div> <div>  <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="Like A Dry Land"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="06-POP10"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > <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>  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id139.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Thank you for your support! </B></div> <bR> </BODY>