The Inconclusive Rule

None Of These Poems Have Been Previously Published. I Am The Photographer For All The Pictures You'Ll See In The Book. I Was Inspired To Make Use Of The Photographs All Originally Taken For A Different Purpose By W. G. Sebald'S Use Of Photographs In His Novel Austerlitz. Which Is Not To Pretend To The Moral And Tragic Dimension Of That Great Work: These Poems Are Motivated Most Often Toward Whimsy Stillness Or Both To Which The Photos Are Point And Counterpoint. They Were Written Over The Quarter Century Between 1985 And 2010. I Am Now Seventy-Five Years Of Age; I Will Not Be Writing More Of Them.