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Product Description SOMETIMES WE TELL STORIES... Sometimes poetry is more than it seems. Sometimes the verse or the words wrap up into tight puzzles that explain the human experience. The imagery, the iconography, the irony combine to mean more than what is written. Sometimes we speak in poetry to emote further than language can express, and sometimes... sometimes we just tell stories. Sometimes the words are the words and the meaning is clear. Sometimes sentences say what sentences mean. Sometimes prose is told in verse. Sometimes lyric adds to the atmosphere. This book is that world. The poems throughout are stories told. Beware, though, thinking that there is no more than that. Stories may just be stories, but like the poetry they emulate, sometimes there is more under the stanzas than is first apparent. Sometimes there are new things among the old. About the Author Learning a little more about me… It’s the age-old question, really, full of cliché and well-worn tropes. If we only knew a little bit more about ourselves, perhaps we wouldn’t have made those same decisions. Perhaps things would be different. Perhaps we would have understood what was happening, what was going to happen. If we only knew just a little bit more… Maybe our stories would all be different, we reason. Maybe our characters would be more adroit. Maybe our experiences more poignant, if we had but a pinch more understanding of our own nature. Perhaps we would find something fresh among the familiar, new things among the old. I find out a little more about myself with every poem. Each new story, each fresh character brings with it a piece of myself. My dry bios may list that I am a father of two, a husband, a brother, a son. It may let you know I live in NW Missouri, or that I am over a half century in age. I can tell you I write novels and poetry and publish a magazine, or that I own rental property and do maintenance at a local convalescent center. I can spout these check points, but to truly k