Table of contents
New Year Resolutions
The Comforts of War
Why Do They Always Come During The
Rainy Season?
Sharpie, the Pen of the President
Wife Greeting a Soldier between Tours
Communiqué from the Home Front
Goal Setting
Hurricane Katrina
Walt Whitman among the Reaching Hands
The poet is holding an antique "banjo-mandolin" with a steel metal plate and flat back, created during the Depression era to be heard at Union organizing strikes, and originally owned by his grandfather.