My memoir, written for my son.
Some autobiographical poems and essays are duplicated here
from their home lists.


  • A Short Story: Uncle Euliss Fixed Model T’s

  • Advent, Vermont, 1982. I find a dead man.

  • And Isaac Rustled Like the Wind

  • Back Mountain Road

  • California Coast, And Other Beauties

  • Christina Fawn

  • Christmas Day, 2022

  • Clocks Stuck In 1937

  • Crawdads

  • Daisy (2009-2022)

  • For Isaac: Behind “The Boundered Lip”

  • Gabriel’s Inhalation

  • Hawk

  • I Love You, Sambo

  • Isaac’s testimony

  • Jesus

  • June 26, 2010: Then, If Ever, Come Perfect Days

  • Not Good To Be A Lone

  • October 1961: The Wreck

  • On The Once And Ever Miracle

  • On The Summer Urge To Sit Outside

  • Pack’s Market

  • Petercave Road

  • Pine Bombs

  • Rockhouse Holler

  • Scenes From My Father

  • Skylarking, and Scotfree

  • Tea-Table

  • The Girl Who Summons Owls

  • The Mind Puzzles, The Feelings Feel, The Heart Wants

  • To Isaac, On Your Baptism Day, October 7, 2012.

  • Vanity, All is Vanity.

  • Walnuts In The Road

  • Why Memoir?