My poems have helped me see things for years now. Looking back on my poems written and now collected I discover I see things anew-not only the remembered incidents (when that happens) but also the vision created in my mind by the poem itself. These poems collected from parts of the life I ran past again recently are things that offer glimpses of what is seen and what that seeing seems to mean. I find that poems best serve me in becoming the creators of insights and perspective. The poems in this book have been giving that gift to me again.