[erslyman]

The following poem has been added to my ebook. corrections as well have been uploaded. The new edition, if you purchased previously, should be available within a day or so.

Reading in a Used Bookstore

What lies beneath shimmers up
and grasps the eye like a fish
and tosses it into the sea.
The cold wind blows
and lifts a page.
The ship rocks to and fro, teetering in my hand.
The swells, the surge,
the sunlit undulating
waves roll and roll,
beat against my brow.
The white majestic sails billow
and pop in my soul.
A tremor strolls along the deck,
spies inside me a spot of land.

(above poem was published in anglepoetry.com several months ago, UK Publication.)

(My favorite poem from this book is "The Law of Pie."

Just a portion. It's rather a long poem...Law of Pie

In the Bible Belt, there is the law of pie.
If you caught drunk driving in the Bible Belt,
you've got to recite Bible verses
and you can't eat pie for two weeks.
If you rob a bank, and kill two tellers,
you can't eat pie for six years.
If you cheat on your taxes you can't have pie
for six months. And if you and your wife fuss
and fight over nothing, like who shot the dog.
You stop making love.
One of you uglier than the other.
Here's some pie. You need it.

If you go to church
you deserve a piece of pie.
If you dressed up nice
and your shoes is shined, you get pie.
But if you don't pray or read your Bible,
if you use the Lord's name in vain,
if you womanizing, drunk, gambling,
cussing, you ain't getting no pie. Don't even ask.