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Here Is How Things Are

Friends

Following a voice, skipping stones, jogging in autumn

Parents, Now And Then

A bowl of faded rose petals, a wooden extension ladder, a photograph

The Ballad Of Outward Living

Growing Older

The Original Odd Couple, a soccer coach, a bibliophile

My Body

Chest pains, milk-and-honey days, my best friend

At The End Of The Fiscal Year

Ten months prior to being eligible for his company’s pension and benefit plan, after almost twenty years, Ben Ross was fired.

The Terminal Restaurant

The Terminal Restaurant never looked real. Built like a small outdoor building indoors, and with its neon sign over the front door spelling its name in red, it made the place look like a movie set.

Selected Poems

Sunbeams

What does “car” mean? A car in a showroom, a car heading straight toward me, a car needing constant repair, all have such isolated meanings that the name “car” cannot be said to stand for any one thing. That too is true of Scott or John or Gayle. God is in them only when God is in my mind. Only love can see steadily, consistently. Love makes one thing of all that it sees.

Hugh Prather, There is a Place Where You Are Not Alone