THE OBSTACLE POEMS AND OTHERS

<p>This is an old man's book not simply because of my age but because I am taking one last basket to market and I want to fill it with as many good eggs as I can find.  The title poem is followed by poems for Isabelle and other members of my incredibly loveable family.  The next group of poems is a broad mix the first having been written in recent years; then poems written over my many decades at one time or another having been considered for a book but rejected now all have been revised sufficiently well to satisfy my fussy taste. Obviously I chose everything here and stand by my pickings.  Just as clear is that you dear reader range over great latitudes with untrammeled feelings. May the muses of poetry bless you.</p>