HEARTS AND MINDS

For This Anthology Of Poetry I Would Especially Like To Thank First Of All And Most Of All My Fianc Of A Dozen Years Ms. Kristin Neal. Without Her Impenetrable Help And Care I Would Never Recognize The Myriad Benefits That Love Inspires In Me In This Kind Of Blank Verse. I Would Also Like To Acknowledge The Support Of Mrs. Maguy Joseph Who Was My Companion In Paris For The Past Six Years. For Many Years I Have Struggled To Fill Pages Of Prose Such As Many Notebooks. I Never Dared Back Then To Compose Any Poetry. Significantly I Awoke One Day And Found (To My Surprise) A Penchant For Rime; Albeit Blank Verse. From Many Lines I Have Consolidated These Thoughts Into A Book Of Verse About: Holidays; Starbucks; War; Love; Black Issues; And Many Others. (This Is Even A Sampling.) Thank You To My Readership For Experiencing This With Me. Sincerely William H Friedman.