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    Sojourn on a River
    Sojourn on a River
    Sojourn on a River
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    Sojourn on a River

    By Terry Yates

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    On Thanksgiving 2018, my wife of 37 years, suggested a project. To take all of those pages in the back filing cabinet and make a book. Three copies, spiral bound at Staples in time for Christmas as gifts for my sons ( one copy for myself). A short deadline, but one I met. Lee Pennington, my college mentor who I had a chance reunion with after some 33 years, saw what I was calling "The Prototype" the following Spring and convinced me to share my work with world. I hope that you enjoy these pages, and remember: THESE THINGS HAPPEN

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPennington Press
    Release dateNov 6, 2022
    ISBN9798215592182
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      Sojourn on a River - Terry Yates

      SOJOURN ON A RIVER

      TERRY YATES

      Pennington Press

      SOJOURN ON A RIVER

      TERRY YATES

      Copyright © 2022 by Terry Yates

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      All art work by Jill Baker

      Pennington Press

      Goshen, Kentucky 40026

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      THE DISTANCE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

      THE UNKNOWN TERROR

      ATOMS AT PLAY

      OUT OF THE METRO

      SHUTTER LIGHT

      NOTCH IN A SIX GUN SLEEP

      PASSING INTO THE FUTURE

      THE FUNNY PAGES

      THE LITTLE RED METAL TOOLBOX

      BASED ON A PAINTING

      GEEZER ONE AND FIFTYNINE

      ARSENIC ELEGY

      HERO OF THE PARADIGM

      MARBLE HILL AND THE PADDLEWHEEL ALLIANCE

      THE GHOST OF JOHN BROWN

      SET OF SEVEN SONGS

      I MIGHT BE FREE

      SAVING FACEBOOK BLUES.COM

      WAYWARD HILL

      DON’T TARRY ME

      I WISH I HAD YOUR COOL

      ZOMBIE CATHOUSE WOMAN

      SOJOURN ON A RIVER

      THE LIST MINUS WORDS

      CRAZY EYE SAW

      TRAP DOOR

      SEE ME GONE AWAY

      LIFEBOAT

      THE DELUDED AND THE DISMAYED

      THE MISFITS HAVE STRING THEORY

      IF THERE WERE NO COLOR RED

      BANDWIDTH

      LUCK OF IRIS

      ETHNO STATE

      STUPID POETS LEAVE LOVE LETTERS

      POEMS COMIC BOOK STYLE

      LUNA HALF SAIL

      HEAVEN WAITS FOR A BODY

      HITCHCOCK AND THE BLONDES

      LIFE AS OPEN BOOK

      FIRST IMPRESSION

      GOLD IN THE VAN GOGH FIELDS

      SECOND SET OF SEVEN SONGS

      DELIA YA DEAL ME DIRTY

      RUN A LONG DISTANCE

      HORSE RIVER BLUES

      DIRTY ROTTEN DOCTOR BLUES

      THE JUKE AND THE JIVE

      THE SWEETHEART PARADE

      THE COURTHOUSE APPALOOSA

      BLUES FOR A SILVER ROSE

      JOHN WILKES BOOTH

      THE DOOMSDAY SWITCH

      FOREWORD

      I was fortunate to have had Terry Yates in my creative writing classes back when Jefferson Community College was part of the University of Kentucky. It did not take me very long to recognize in this young man was a fine talent, one I hoped I would have the opportunity sometime to write a foreword to a book of poetry of his. I am delighted that such an opportunity has now

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