Just West of the Tracks
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Just West of the Tracks - Jim Rainey
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Also By Jim Rainey
Chasing Down Lincoln Highway
© 2013 Jim Rainey. All rights reserved.
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Published by AuthorHouse 4/29/2013
ISBN: 978-1-4817-4577-2 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013907759
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US%26UKLogoColornew.aiAcknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge Nan Johnson of AuthorHouse. Nan has been my publisher, my agent, my editor and my special assistant throughout this project. And I am grateful.
I would also like to acknowledge Bri of my local Walgreen’s store. Walgreen’s has this wonderful photo kiosk, monitor and software. I sit on a stool and do all the photography work at six o’clock in the morning. Bri has been my teacher, my assistant and my support staff throughout this project. And I am grateful.
Dedication
To my daughter, Rebecca, who is my
friend, my advisor and a cornerstone
of my life.
The world is so great and rich, and life is so full of
variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Table of Contents
Barbara Lynn
A Call For Help
The Cat
Chance
Claire’s Girl
The Clock
Come To Me
Doubt
Dust
The Elevator
Even The Richest Man
Freedom January 31, 1865
Good-Bye
Grief
A Handful Of Wind I will cast my net to catch the wind.
Jack Wilson Do you know him, Shane?
Junior Prom
Just West Of The Tracks
The Leaving
Morning Rush Hour
Mule Ride
My Heart Was Passing By
New Orleans
Next To Thee
On A Bus To The Canyon
Pistakee Bay
Recuerdo
Remembrances Of Things Past
Renaissance
Reunion
The Second Coming
Sixty-Seven Winters
A Small Heap Of Stones
Sunrise On The Gulf
Tell The Vicar
Tight Pants
Turtles and Rabbits and Bears
What Is Art?
Worry
Selections From Chasing Down Lincoln Highway
Brooklyn Bridge
Carpe Diem
A Grand Old Lady
I Have Been Witness
The South