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While these poems were being written, I became a father, moved to a new city, started a new job, created a jazz interview show, and fell in love with poetry again. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Sixty-Seven Unopened Videocassettes </B></div> <bR> <div> Thirty years and fifty percent of my DNA</div> <div> have brought me to a double-wide with a steep driveway, </div> <div> tucked away in an enclave of trailers not far from the iron </div> <div>        banks of the Ohio River. </div> <div> She asks me to call her "nanna" because all the children do. </div> <div> He's missing most of his teeth - waiting for a new set of dentures. </div> <div> I have no hook on which to hang this porch conversation, </div> <div> this three-decade history lesson and game of tag. </div> <div> So we talk about tobacco farming, long-haul trucking, </div> <div> and spying on the Russians from within a cigar tube deep </div> <div> beneath the Mediterranean. </div> <div> I learn about great-uncles and great-aunts and an extra uncle, </div> <div> only to learn that money and land and other tragedies have </div> <div> driven wedges into this family, too. </div> <div> I want to walk into the dining room like Antwone Fisher, </div> <div> but the table is given over to Charlie Brown and Linus - </div> <div> Christmas decorations awaiting transfer to their holiday destination. </div> <div> There are sixty-seven unopened Star Trek videocassettes,</div> <div> a bathroom crammed with history books, </div> <div> lighters from the Navy, </div> <div> a robe almost like the one I wear, </div> <div> and an old shaving cup with a worn brush. </div> <div> No matter what happens, I've erased the most terrible vision:</div> <div> awaiting the end with the moisture of regret dampening my cheeks. </div> <div> "The next time you come, darlin', we'll have chicken and dumplings." </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>At Mr. Frost's</B></div> <bR> <div> Bathed in</div> <div> autumn</div> <div> sunlight</div> <div> on a </div> <div> table rock</div> <div> in the fallow field</div> <div> behind </div> <div> Robert Frost's</div> <div> stone house,</div> <div> I'm reminded</div> <div> of the poet's</div> <div> advice</div> <div> to not press</div> <div> the poems</div> <div> too hard.</div> <div> Sometimes sunlight</div> <div> is just that,</div> <div> and fallow fields </div> <div> need only</div> <div> sun, seeds,</div> <div> water</div> <div> and time.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Jason Crane was born in Lenox, Massachusetts. He is a jazz broadcaster, podcaster and writer. He's a husband and father. And he rides a bicycle.</div> <bR> <div> Jason hosts the online jazz interview show <I>The Jazz Session </I>(www.thejazzsession.com), featuring in-depth interviews with jazz musicians from around the world.</div> <bR> <div> Over the years, Jason has worked as a grocery stock clerk, cashier, bank teller, waiter, professional musician, radio announcer, television/radio script writer, Web site editor, newspaper and wire-service copy editor, radio reporter, newspaper page designer, union organizer, nonprofit development director, radio station manager, talk show host, stay-at-home dad, union organizing director, union representative, and communications/public relations specialist.</div> <bR> <div> You can read and listen to Jason's poems online at <A HREF="http://jasoncrane.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://jasoncrane.org"><U>jasoncrane.org</U></A>.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Unexpected Sunlight</B></div> <div> is a 52 page hand-stitched paper book with spine - $14.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >                             </FONT></div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US         <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="Unexpected Sunlight"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--10"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <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="Unexpected Sunlight"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--10"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <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="Unexpected Sunlight"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--10"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>