FootHills Publishing    |   home Submitting to FootHills   |   2007 Books   |   Zazulyer   |   James   |   Spiers   |   Hoogestraat   |   Lochridge   |   Lehmann   |   Gittings-Dalton   |   Bashkirew   |   Good   |   Rivera   |   Calhoun   |   Deer Cloud   |   Wright   |   Miller   |   Milby   |   Bird   |   Quetchenbach   |   Gordon   |   Riche   |   Richardson   |   Brown   |   Schwartz   |   Rossiter   |   Graser   |   Owens   |   Merrifield   |   Thomas   |   Krok   |   Jennings   |   Stelzig   |   Faurot   |   Costanzo   |   Ordering by Mail   |   Contact FHP Bernard Quetchenbach Everything As It Happens  Bernard Quetchenbach is from Rochester, New York, on Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Genesee River. He lives in Billings, Montana, and teaches in the English and Philosophy Department at Montana State University-Billings.  He is the author of Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century, published by the University Press of Virginia, and a poetry chapbook, The Hermit's Act, from Finishing Line Press. He edited The River Review/La Revue rivière and is co-editor of Lake Hollingsworth: Reflections and Studies on a Florida Landmark, published by The History Press.  His poems, essays, and articles have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies.  His essay "Canadas," which appeared in Ascent, was selected as a "Notable Essay of 2005" in Best American Essays 2006. Contents I When That Time Comes      The Gray Lake      Rochester Harbor      Braddock's Bay      Up in Maine      Bas Saint-Laurent      The Northern Summer      Acid Rain      Northeast      Moving to Marshland      II Emigration and Return      The Shrine      The Motel Next to the Mill      Work Poem      Sunday      Mud Bugs (Louisiana)      Passing a Town      Indiana      Field's Landing      Blue Lake      The Toothless Man      A Walk      III Fugitive's Way      The Cicada Killer      The Life-Size Devil      Relic      Twilight      Autumn Poem      Fish and Wildlife Area      Flock      After The Drought      Hank Williams                          The Country-Western Opry House of    Alamo, Indiana                     IV A Brief History                          Western                          The Prairie                          Mormon Trail                          McCullough Peaks                     Fossil Hunting                          Clark's Fork Canyon                     The Lava Road                          Late One Night in Heavy Weather, a Literary    Critic, Afraid of Flying, Gets Tired Rehearsing    His Paper Aboard the San Francisco Zephyr      V You Left                               Selling the House                     Story                               Ghost                               The Passing                          Island Story                          The Pacific                          Nick of Time                          Dream                               Indian Lake                          VI Wave                               From the book: When That Time Comes    And if you find day-lilies, and under morning glories, a bird, thought extinct, living by its wits, or a stone balanced on a stone . . . You could stop breathing    just like that-    In the moment between the leaves . . . You try to lock    everything as it happens,    lists, photographs, your life    a ball in your fist.    Someone who looks like you kicking dust, a country road. Day-lilies.  Hands working through vines . . . Or did he pass    into the trees without a sound? Up in Maine The sea is sly around the rocks, always behind the islands, hiding in bays, in fog and rain, a sudden jet in a cleft of granite. It slips over stones waved by glaciers, slaps at bell buoys, shrugs the rise and fall of eiders. Like a jellyfish stunned in a pool, a shard ripped from a trap float, trapped itself, speared and released by seapulse sharp in a fracture,    glances urchin spikes between the crabs' sunken gravity and the moon's long glide. The Passing Our best guess is that it is ending for us, folding from us like wings, the long passage over water. Enough warblers pattern the willows, a musical drizzle through the night air; landfall bristles in fossil buds. What's left is always a fragment.  A few cowbirds stalk the hedge in search of unwary nests. Everything As It Happens is a 92 page hand-sewn book with spine - $16.00 TO ORDER  ON-LINE                 To order through mail click here.