<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Each poem in Wayne Luthi's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I Am Here Let's Go Home: Poems of San Francisco of Earlier Times and Places</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>is its own vignette that captures an intimate moment from the streets and moods of San Francisco to the alleys and flats of London the pathways and control towers of Thailand during the Viet Nam War and the knobs of Kentucky. These poems offer the opportunity to step into the realm of the reflective with descriptions of sights flavors and scents to take a moment aside from the normal demands of our attention.</span></p>