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    At the Rim: Selected Poems
    At the Rim: Selected Poems
    At the Rim: Selected Poems
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    At the Rim: Selected Poems

    By Bob Johnston

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    Bob Johnston is a retired petroleum engineer and translator. His published works include a number of papers in the scientific press and eight books translated from Russian. He waited until his sixtieth year to begin writing serious poetry, and over the next thirty years he has been trying to catch up. His poetry and short stories have been published in twenty-odd literary journals. He lives in Las Vegas, New Mexico with his wife and some hope of completing his memoirs and The Great American Novel.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSunstone Press
    Release dateJan 15, 2012
    ISBN9781611390568
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      At the Rim - Bob Johnston

      At the Rim

      Selected Poems

      Bob Johnston

      At the Rim

      Selected Poems

      © 2011 by Robert K. Johnston

      All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

      Sunstone books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional Use. For information please write: Special Markets Department, Sunstone Press, P.O. Box 2321, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2321.

      Body typeface Palatino Linotype

      Cover design by Vicki Ahl

      Printed on acid free paper

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Johnston, Bob, 1920-

       At the rim : poems / Bob Johnston.

           p. cm.

       ISBN 978-0-86534-814-1 (soft cover : alk. paper)

       I. Title.

       PS3610.O3839A87 2011

       811′.6—dc22

       2011015241

      www.sunstonepress.com

      SUNSTONE PRESS / Post Office Box 2321 / Santa Fe, NM 87504-2321 /USA

      (505) 988-4418 / orders only (800) 243-5644 / FAX (505) 988-1025

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      The following poems, or earlier versions of these poems, first appeared in the indicated journals. Permission to reprint is gratefully acknowledged.

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      BACK

      Hazel, South Dakota

      Waiting

      Coarse Texture

      Running Water

      End of the Drought

      There Are No Birds in Manhattan

      UP

      Poems Written to Order

      Our Animal Friends

      The Best Colors Are Mixed

      The Entropy Drag

      Total Immersion

      Finding Home

      CLEAR

      The Second Excited State

      These Foolish Things

      Song in Four Movements

      Quartet

      Sought Through Prayer and Meditation

      Loretto Chapel

      Bedrock

      Redefinition

      DARK

      The Exorcist

      In Memoriam

      The Green Underworld

      Double Helix

      Termination

      A Day Late

      The Tie That Binds

      The Track to Nowhere

      THE SEVEN DEADLY COLORS

      Purple

      Gold

      Red

      Black

      Puce

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