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A Smile
I have a SEED
Somewhere within I am
Hugo
Letter to My Brother Frank
Dictation for a Dictator
An Open Door; Heed It
Toast to You
Gleaming Eyes
Said Ken to Me
Count to Satan
Loneliness
Reflective Voyage
Pick up the Pail
Death Today
Quick Life
Old Man's Whistle
God Is:
Each Season
As If Infinity
One Hears the Tune
Have I forgotten Jesus?
Brain Damage
Church Description
Den
Death in a Jungle
Ten Lines
Nature's Law
It's Still Sad
The Flea Tree
Gain or Lose
Going Away from Here
Nightmare
Talking about People
Towns and their People
Dear, Dear, Dearest
Population
Top Line
Mountains Reach
Upon these Grounds
A Ship?
Let the Timbers Shake
Wladyshaw
Winds of Fate
Sweet Young Girl
Fingers of Nature
The Lord Spoke
The Celtic Told Me
Mary
Poem to Pat
A Free Man
Poem


Over the meadows of Appalachia she flew to me,
over clouds, mountains, and seas.
Because of me, because of me.

Fate has long fingers to point one's way,
To hurry a life or to doom its stay.
And she'll never go away, never away.

Pat is the queen who gave all her kingdom to me
Removed all my shackles and set me forever free
For all to see, for me.

Now all her mystical mist has risen to the sun
and now she and I can be forever one.
Until all is done, we both will be one.

Patricia Ruggles tolerated a ten year marriage to an immature man who later grew up to be myself. However, she made the smart move to leave me. Had she not, neither of us would have grown. I will always love her.