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    Quebradillas
    Quebradillas
    Quebradillas
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    Quebradillas

    By John Dickey

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    A collection of short poems about life in rural Puerto Rico and elsewhere.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 15, 2011
    ISBN9781456723453
    Quebradillas
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    John Dickey

    John Dickey has been a geologist, research scientist, university professor/dean, NSF program director, and Director of Outreach and Research Support of the American Geophysical Union. He has enjoyed and written poetry since his youth. In addition to numerous scientific and policy publications Dr. Dickey is author of On The Rocks (John Wiley, 1996), a book about the earth and planetary sciences and scientists for the general public, and Earth: A Narrative in Verse (AuthorHouse, 2005), which tells our planet's story from the birth of the solar system to the demise of the Sun as a fading white dwarf. He lives in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico.

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      Quebradillas - John Dickey

      Contents

      Preface

      A Cabin in Canaan

      After Dark

      Aging

      Angelus

      Anxiety Dreams

      Are Humans Not Magnificent?

      Back Road

      Bananas

      Beneath the Sycamore

      Black-Faced Grassquit

      Canadian Air

      Carpe Diem

      Cement Trucks

      Cider Mill

      Class Reunion

      Coconuts

      Cooking in the Country

      Coquis Cinquain

      Cosmic Confusion

      Cuban Tree Frogs

      Death Spiral

      Deep Fear

      Defiance

      Diurnal Rain

      Doldrums

      Dry Seasons

      Duckboards

      Egrets

      El Túnel Negro

      Empty Nest

      Endurance

      Evening Concert

      Fish Story

      Flamboyán

      Flying Fish

      Forgiveness

      Four Times Two

      Frangipani

      Gecko

      Great Snowy Owl

      Green Heron

      Growing Old

      Homage to Heraclitus

      Iguana

      Karst

      Kestrels

      Kick the Can!

      La Cobada²

      L’chaim!

      Lunar Memories

      Magnificent Frigate Bird

      Metrical Variations

      Mind Games

      Mongoose

      Moonlight

      Motorbikes

      Music

      Nails

      Nightmare

      Older Surfer

      Onus Incarnate

      Parting

      Peas

      Pelicans

      Politics

      Prayer

      Precambrian Sunrise

      Rain

      Red Bishop

      Relics

      Rocks Remember

      Rolita⁵

      Rope Tow

      Sam Brungot

      Sato

      Sinkhole

      Skating

      Squalls

      Stroke of Fate

      Sunrise

      The Books My Life Was All About

      Theft

      The House on Live Oak Drive

      The Roots of War

      Tiger Hike

      Toad

      Together

      Trade Winds

      Train No. 1

      Uva de Playa

      Vantage Point

      Venus

      Warriors

      Was It For Fame We Followed Science?

      Water Walk

      Waves

      We Wait for Death

      Whale

      Who Are the People in My Dreams?

      Wonderment

      Preface

      By defining poetry as memorable speech W.H. Auden and John Garrett[1] set the bar very high; for, although the products of this ancient craft may express thoughts in language that is stimulating, only with luck will they be long remembered. Like trails of mucus left by snails, tangled skeins of memories and reflections glitter briefly as they age, then mostly disappear. The following are some of mine. Many were inspired by rural life in Puerto Rico. Others came from earlier

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