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    The Three-Mile Bridge: (Across Pensacola Bay on a Span of Poems)
    The Three-Mile Bridge: (Across Pensacola Bay on a Span of Poems)
    The Three-Mile Bridge: (Across Pensacola Bay on a Span of Poems)
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    The Three-Mile Bridge: (Across Pensacola Bay on a Span of Poems)

    By Jack Beach

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    The Three-Mile Bridge is a trip, a short one in terms of distance, but a profound one in terms of time. Unstructured poetry is the perfect medium to get you from shore to shore; it can catch weather, time of day, season, or mood (be it euphoria, booziness, or road rage) in a word, line, or at its most verbose, stanza. Over sixteen years I have engaged in a love affair with my Bridge. You will, too.

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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateSep 21, 2001
    ISBN9780759639393
    The Three-Mile Bridge: (Across Pensacola Bay on a Span of Poems)
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    Jack Beach

    JACK BEACH (pen name) is a bona fide Yankee. Born in Galesburg, Illinois, he studied at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, U; of Iowa, and Western Reserve U. (Ph.D.). After two decades on the Theatre Faculty at the University of Kansas, Beach pulled up stakes and headed to Atlanta, where his love of Southern Drama and Literature beckoned. Retiring from Agnes Scott College in 1985, he built a home in Pensacola, Florida, and leased a pad in New Orleans. For years he has been hobnobbing around the lower (decadent) end of the French Quarter, collecting the story gems and oddities revealed as poems and “prose snapshots” in MARDI GRAS: Beads, Belles, and Balls. Beach has published three previous books with Author House: The Three-Mile Bridge (poems) The Grand Tour (travel poems), and Without a Net (short stories).

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      The Three-Mile Bridge - Jack Beach

      THE THREE – MILE BRIDGE

      (Across Pensacola Bay

      on a Span of Poems)

      By

      Jack Beach

      © 2001 by Jack Beach. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced,

      restored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by

      means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,

      recording, or otherwise, without written consent

      from the author.

      ISBN:978-0-7596-3939-3 (ebook)

      1stBooks - rev. 08/09/01

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgements

      My Bridge: A Preamble

      I MORNING

      bridge

      October: 2:55 a.m.

      little shrimper

      Early Morning Clog

      School Bus

      Center Line

      Carrying Rick To Work

      Yellow Slicker

      Ceiling Zero

      Redneck Riviera

      gulled

      II NOON

      Noon

      Turning Point

      The Crossing Of Billy Joe Barnes.

      Midway

      Nightmare At Noon

      III AFTERNOON

      Fools Rush In : April 1.

      Pea Soup Afternoon

      Post Drizzle

      Pollution

      AFTERNOON SLUMP

      HaPpy HouR

      Headin’ Home

      Sunset

      IV NIGHT

      in dreams i watch the bridge at night from a hill above the town

      Miss Bonnye Sue Bonnifey Takes a Spin…

      Lost

      Smashed: 2:00 a.m.

      leaving the empty bridge behind

      About the Author

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I wish to thank The West Florida Literary Federation for sponsoring both The Reader’s Showcase and the Saturday Night Open Mikes, where these poems first tried their wings. The experiences of bouncing them off an audience, hearing them read by gifted readers, and engaging in comment and critique afterwards, were invaluable in grooming and reshaping the poems, assuring them continued life.

      Thanks, too, to Nancy Harris and her happy Sunday afternoons at the Maple Leaf Bar out in Big Easy’s River Bend District.

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