The Laws of Gravity and Levity

By Paul Clavelle and Jeff Clavelle

The Source

Before I die,
I want to trace
The river to its source –

The damp, black earth,
The mountainside –

And smell the leaves and
Needles on the ground,
Be speckled in the
Light and shadows
Of the woods,

And cup my hands,
And hold the wild,
And drink it in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: May 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781483450704

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Contents

Setting Out

The Source

Sometimes

On the Road Again

A Voice

Meditation - A Primer

Some Days

True Blue

True Guru

Lapsing into Nap Time

Odd Elephant Out

On Low

It Doesn't Work That Way

The Grand Canyon

It's the Law, Or Is It?

On Reaching Social Security Retirement Age

Two Poets Kibitz About Writing and Life

Your Well-Cultivated Flowers

Uh, Oh!

Tonight

Gimme Shimmy

Remembering

I'm Snow Happy

Toot, Toot

Dream, Dream, Dream

November Feast or It's Even Better Reheated

After the Ice Storm

Late Summer Lemonade

Building Blocks

Summer Evenings around the Campfire

His Obit Picture

Gravity

The Law of Gravity

Wise Words Spoken at a Change Management Workshop

Non-elective Poetry

Laser Tag on a Sunday Afternoon

Karate Class

Shadow Boxing

Shadow Wrestling

The Tacit Vow

The Garden of Eden

Confessions of a Land Lubber

Condemned

Fauna

November Morn

What's Your Secret, Mr. Sea Turtle?

Woodchuck

Is Nature Fair?

A Rumination

Here's to You, Butterfly

Squirrels in March

True Brown?

Levity

What's in a Name?

Looking Out My Front Window on a Snowy Evening

To Our Incoming Freshmen, From the University's Board of Directors

I Just Don't Know

How Now, Brown Crow?

or

The Plight of the ESL Student

Prayer of the Sweets Addict

Half Way Through Theoretical Physics 101

Pig-Headed

The Law of Levity

A New Year's Resolution, Again

The Debt We Owe

Playing by the Rules

Take Two Aspirin

A Po r Poet's Worst N ghtmare

An Expatriate Russian Poet Discovers The Price of Poetry in a Capitalist Country

Stirring Things Up

Science, Stumped

Bless You

Faith and Hope

April

A Wish at the Millennium

Believe

The Paschal Candle

Fall Reflections - 1

Fall Reflections - 2

Not Done Yet: A Perfectionist Plods On

Priorities

Civil Abe

A Weathered Pine

What's Left

With Five Years Yet to Serve

Sisyphus Teaches Hop Scotch On A Muddy Mountainside

Bumble Be

Mahatma

A Sermon for the Ages

Family

Home Cooking

Who Does He Think He is, Anyway?

Your Face Became You

The Night of Mom's Last Day

The Liberator