Where the Heart Is

By Eric Foster Rhodes

As a management consultant, I traveled seven million miles, visiting clients in thirty seven-seven states. In the course of these travels, and in everyday life, I observed many phenomena of our country and our society which I wished to record, and poetry seemed to me to be the way to do it.

Later, reviewing the vast number of these interpretations of life and love, I chose the poems in this book for my first published collection-for no good reason, except that I opted to save poems about business and office life and politics and war (and more about love and dogs) for future collections.

I hope you enjoy these. They are from "Where the Heart Is."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 19, 2009
• ISBN: 9781462842872

Eric Foster Rhodes

Dr. Eric Foster Rhodes, along with being a business and labor consultant, educator, and author of mystery stories and novels, is also an amateur magician. When you see him, ask him about his mind reading act. Eric and wife Barbara now live on the banks of the Pithlachascotee River near the Gulf of Mexico

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

WHERE THE HEART IS

WRITTEN BY HAND

TOMBSTONES AND PHOTOGRAPHS

DAY IN OCTOBER

SIGHTSEEING IN THE COUNTRY

SOMEHOW

A SPAN OF TIME

ANIMATE, INANIMATE

THE PUMPKIN RAIDS

FOUR DAUGHTERS AND A SON

HOT FLAMES AND COOL

PRAYING FOR TWENTY-NINE

GRANITE STONES

ISAAC THE DOG

IT TAKES ALL DAY

FLYING OVER FLORIDA

SPANISH MOSS

RIVERSIDE SCENES

LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS

SWEEPING, LEAPING

GUIDING AND HERDING

LANDSCAPE WITH WILDLIFE

RASPBERRIES BY A COUNTRY ROAD

AT HOME: SUMMER

DEBTORS’ PRISONS

FLIGHT TO THE KISSES

DINING ALONE

COMING AND GOING

PARKING SPOT IS VACANT

A DEPTH BEYOND MEASURE

I STILL HAVE

ANOTHER DAY

GRADATIONS

NEW FOR OLD

ANCLOTE RIVER

AT THANKSGIVING TIME

CHRISTMAS TO US

BELLS RINGING

ST. VALENTINE’S DAY

WINTER LIGHT

IS IT YOUR BIRTHDAY?

THE WAY TO GRANDMOTHER’S

LOVE, FOR ME

ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL

THAT MANY YEARS

KINDS OF KINDNESS

MOVING

ACROSS A THOUSAND MILES

A TREE FELL DOWN

A COUNTRY BOY

NAP TIME

GROWING OLD

FISH JUMP SMOOTHLY

HOW MANY SUNSETS

ADVICE TO NAME-CALLERS

ARE WE OLD YET?

REMEMBER YOUNG WILLIE?

HOW I GOT TO BE SIXTY

NIGHT DRIVING

FREEZING AND THAWING

THIS LITTLE POEM

POETRY IS

INTRODUCTION

As a management consultant, I traveled seven million miles, visiting clients in thirty-seven states. In the course of these travels, and in everyday life, I observed many phenomena of our country and our society which I wished to record, and poetry seemed to me to