My poems “When to Say Goodbye” and “I Praise the Moon, Even When She Laughs” are live at Does It Have Pockets. Many thanks to Camille Griep and the Does It Have Pockets team for taking these previously published pieces and offering them new life.
O at the Edges
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O at the Edges 
I will never not be head over heels in love with the man who voiced these poems… Bravissimo, amore mio!
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These poems would not exist were it not for you!
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These are terrific. Thank you.
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Thanks, Barbara. I was pleased to learn that Does It Have Pockets accepts previously published work. It felt good to offer these poems new life.
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I’ll check them out. Thanks.
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Congrats, Bob.
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Thanks, Andrew!
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You’re welcome.
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Keep spreading the good word, Bob.
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I keep trying, Ken. There never seems to be enough time!
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Those are really good. Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks, Rob. I hope the world is treating you well.
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Congratulations, Bob! Clicking over to read the poems.
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Thank you, Liz. I appreciate your support.
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You’re welcome, Bob.
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Love these and it was wonderful to read them again. Congrats, Bob!
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Thanks, Lynne. So much has happened since they were originally published a lifetime ago. Or is it two lifetimes? Ha.
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Those connections grow more and more complicated every year…congratulations! (K)
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So true, Kerfe.
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Great to read both of these again.
Also enjoying your book His Windblown Self and love that it closes with “Continuing”. The older I get the frailer my body but I sense a steady strengthening of spirit … your poetry stokes such. Thanks!
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So good to hear from you, Jazz. There was never any doubt about which poem would end the collection. It just had to be.
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Two really good poems. The first, in particular, so apt now.
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Thank you very much, Derrick!
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Wow! Two jewels among the treasure you have created.
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Thanks, Jilanne. I’m so pleased to have rescued them from the tar pit of the previously published!
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It’s wonderous how these poems from years ago step up to speak again now. These two poems of yours inspire me to get back to work on some incomplete or needing-revision poems.
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Individual poems published in lit mags have such short shelf-lives! I’m thrilled when I come upon publishers willing to feature previously published pieces, especially when the original publishers no longer exist.
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