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Childhood Fears

Large vegetables, losing one or both parents, the death of an animal

There But For The God Of Grace Go I

He decided that if looking into the darkness could evoke both bears with frying pans and wonderful fantasy worlds, then it was all a matter of the manner in which he went about looking that determined what would confront him. He was still scared of the dark so he limited his looking to moments of strong neurotic necessity, but the vision had been so powerful he never again seriously considered brick and mortar as being in any way, shape or form representational of reality.

First Sexual Experience

In the tall broomsedge, in a nearly finished new house, in a tent

Teachers

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Mrs. Allen, Guru Maharaji Ji

Family Stories

Waiting for the angels, chopping the head off a chicken, building a house — twice

January 1979

Fathers

To let our parents be, to accept them as people, human and therefore imperfect, rather than as gods — that is the challenge.

The Brown Bear Poems

Angel At The Gate

In the year I was sixteen, on the first day of that new year, my father died, and since that time I have longed hopelessly for a paradise that will never return.

Selected Poems

Sports

(Part One)

Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente, Bert Jones