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    As If Behind a Waterfall: A Collection of poems
    As If Behind a Waterfall: A Collection of poems
    As If Behind a Waterfall: A Collection of poems
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    As If Behind a Waterfall: A Collection of poems

    By Loren Smith

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    As If Behind a Waterfall reflects on water droplets as metaphors for memories. Ampersands of Time studies the symbol for and per se. The Spirit of Christmas 2014 helps us understand the spirit that moves through a family at Christmas. Now They Just Call Him a Fool is a cowboy song. He Ain’t Nobody’s Cabin Boy warns us not to take the smaller man for granted. My Crepe Myrtle Sky is a summer poem. On a Night Like This is about love in a lagoon. Don’t Be a Team Player reminds us that sometimes being a team player is not the best choice. Her Musical Methodist Hands is a poem about my mother. Itching As She Lay Sleeping has to do with scratching. The Ostrich and the Peckerwood is political satire. Auspicious Man is about a man that is favored with fortune. Poem For Spencer is a sad poem about one of my former Biology students. Don’t be a cad is a lesson. Like a Candle Written On a Shaker Screen is inspired by a song. Brown Skin Guitarra is about my guitar. Flocculated Mudman is about a time on a drilling rig off the coast of the Congo. The City That Doesn’t Honk is about Houston. Auspicious Man spotlights a lucky man. Memories and Trinkets is a sad poem. Golfing Lemurs is a long form poem about golfing with lemurs in a far away forest.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLoren Smith
    Release dateJun 26, 2015
    ISBN9781311044549
    As If Behind a Waterfall: A Collection of poems
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    Loren Smith

    Loren Smith taught Biology for eighteen years. He has worked as a mud engineer in Venezuela, Guatemala, Alaska, Africa and Texas. Loren and his wife Jane reside in Houston.

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      As If Behind a Waterfall - Loren Smith

      AS IF BEHIND A WATERFALL

      A Collection of Poems

      by

      Loren Smith

      Copyright 2015 Loren Smith

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      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

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