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    Mountain Meadow Amore
    Mountain Meadow Amore
    Mountain Meadow Amore
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    Mountain Meadow Amore

    By Sonny Gratzer

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    This is a book about loving women in beautiful Montana, in her mountain meadows and on her lakeshores. It is a book of images of wonderful, loving women who have been in my life and is my offering of gratitude to them. It is a tip of the hat to my ladies and my state. It is about their memories, and the tranquility they offered.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateDec 26, 2000
    ISBN9781469786629
    Mountain Meadow Amore
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    Sonny Gratzer

    Sonny Gratzer earned a BA in history and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana. He volunteered to serve in Vietnam, where he received several medals including the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Silver Star, Purple Heart, and Vietnamese Crosses of Gallantry. He currently lives in Montana. This is his fourth published book and his first novel.

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      Book preview

      Mountain Meadow Amore - Sonny Gratzer

      Contents

      Epigraph

      Preface

      Acknowledgements

      Mountain Meadows

      When We Sleep

      Out of Season

      Trial

      Your Prize

      Windows Closed

      Three-Way Musings

      Your Glistening Self

      Reflections

      Waging Lover’s War

      Delicacy

      Was It Wine and Not Love?

      Alone With You Again

      Pitter-Patter

      Lake Nymph

      Hanging Thoughts

      Cuts

      Dew Drops

      My Wishful Thinking

      Thank Heaven the Nights

      Grow Longer

      Send It To Me

      Influence

      Help From the Little Ones

      Invasion

      Talking With My Hands

      Edges

      My Blue Heaven

      Mythic Sails

      Dried Tears

      My Empty Hands

      Harmony

      Thinking in the Rain

      Together

      A Cry in the Night

      Would You?

      To Love Away

      Giggles in the Rain

      Where Do I Go?

      Feckless

      Mountain Chivalry

      Wild Calling

      A Vessel Leaking

      Tindery Love

      Look the Other Way

      Wanton Memories

      Responses

      The Dance Ending

      Velvet Hammer’s Blow

      Divisions

      The Fire of Wine

      Questions

      Mars Dreams With Venus Aloft

      My Guitar Lies

      My Prayers.

      Leaning Lines

      Hunting in Starlight

      Sweet Melon Carrier

      String

      Spring Step

      Our Hearts Beat

      Your Weekends

      Where Are You?

      Personal Angles

      When We Sleep

      Responses

      Rainbow

      Sing My Dreams

      Bellicose Bread Crumbs

      Calefactions

      Dreams

      Suffering

      Some Tales Are Different

      Impressionism

      Roundup

      Your Misty Eyes Touch Me

      You Are Good

      Classified Secret

      Sleeping Bears in Flower Gardens

      Wounded Souls

      La Mia Amante

      Angels Decide

      Our Dance

      Accented Rain

      Opiate

      Breasts

      Without You

      Resting Place

      My Stove

      Spare Me

      Found Again

      But a Little

      Scare Me Away

      Creeping Home

      Cleansing Sun

      About the Author

      Epigraph

      I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.

      Pablo Neruda

      from

      Every Day You Play,

      Twenty Love Poems and a

      Song of Despair

      Preface

      One of life’s great joys is to admire women. I like women. I like their shapes, whims, looks, laughs, troubles, kindnesses, and their flirtations, nearly everything about them. Of course, there is often a down-side, but it is too boring to contemplate.

      I have especially cared for a few women very much. Some of them I have written of, to and about in the stories within these covers. I did not attempt to define each of them from the other, but I tried to glorify who and what they are to me. Nothing more immediate or complex than that. I like them.

      I like these women very much. Still. And will. The problems that evolved in these relationships are not matters to worry about. Only the excitement each caused.

      Am I being egotistical? Of course I am. I mean to be, otherwise why write these things, and especially why publish them? Make of it what you will, wise reader, but know that I meant every word, for my sake and theirs.

      I also wanted to write another book like this to supplement my first effort in this genre: General Issue Blues, Viet Nam to Here: A Warrior’s Tour. It is a legacy, as I do not expect to leave much else. That is, nothing is so finite as a book of words to be read as testimony to parts of a life. I want to leave something to which my offspring can point as something their father/grandfather did, something not quite like anything anyone else did. These words, linked as I made them, are mine alone. So, per-haps a bit of spite is interlocked with pride, maybe to shock doubters a bit. There are those who remember me locked into the physical side of life as warrior, fighter, player and struggler. I do enjoy music and other

      art forms, and I do know and appreciate the finer, softer side of life. This as much as anything is why I want to publish these pieces.

      I am self-centered enough to want you to read and like these poems, to find something of yourself in them, and to read them to your lovers.

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