Lovely…and, oh that last line!

Wonderful. Congratulations on the publication, but mostly for the poem itself.

Amen to this.

When my daughter married the year before last, she and her husband used this as a reading during their ceremony.

1. 39 Steps
2. North by Northwest
3. Rear Window
4. Foreign Correspondent
5. Notorious

I’d let my subscription to The Sun lapse awhile ago, but re-upped. Just read Tonino’s “Shift.” What a dense, moving poem. So, thanks for the prompt.

Thanks. I will check it out.

Who is it…since now I’m curious?

I think the best writing makes us say, I could never do that…I want to try to do that.

Sometimes at night I listen to old radio murder mystery series and some of them include the cigarette ads, which sometimes mention the company gave away X hundred cartons to soldiers in Europe.

Related question…how much is it if you just want to go to the book fair and buy more than you know you should?

I hear you. The entire time my son was in Iraq and Afghanistan I checked news sites countless times a day, looking at maps when I saw reports of deaths, calculating how far it was from his FOB, wondering if there was a chance his team might’ve been there. Bless you, and your son. May he be safe.