Garage Sale

By Edward Fisher

Garage Sale is a collection of odds and ends, a recollection of summer afternoons on his great grandparents farm in the back hills of West Virginia. Among the memorabilia of his boyhood is an assortment of evenings on the earth, like keepsakes accumulating in an old shoe boxthe stuff of our lives and such stuff as dreams are made ofset against a backdrop of the stardust in a universe full of holes. Finding meaning here requires an awakening to what is truly human in uslearning how to lend the helping hand and healing embrace of friendship and love, and feeling a kind of kinship with even the lowliest of creatures. A blend of narrative and lyricpart reminiscence, part forebodingthese poems are like an old, dusty ledger recording the images of a lost world. In a bottom-line culture that only holds sacred the value of money, this poets toolbox reclaims the language of things left unsaid, the unspoken wisdom hidden in the urge to give everything away and join in the dance of dying stars, where we are only trespassers on the holiness of light.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Feb 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781490780894

Edward Fisher

Edward Fisher taught school in Africa in the Peace Corps, and worked as a play-therapist and adventure-based counselor with special needs children. He holds a bachelors in literature and a doctorate in psychology. A Pushcart nominee, his prize-winning work has been published by several small college and university presses.

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GARAGE

SALE

EDWARD FISHER

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Copyright 2017 Edward Fisher.

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ISBN: 978-1-4907-8088-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4907-8090-0 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4907-8089-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017901879

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CONTENTS

THE QUILTING BEE

At The Garden Gate

Barefoot Boy

Under The Moon & The Morning Star

Rhyming By The Numbers

Sixteen Kinds Of Snow

Honeycomb Poem

Ears In The Earth

The Legend Of Uncle Clifford

The Old Springhouse

The Quilting Bee

The Ledger

Archimedes’ Screw

Indian Rock

Listening To Longfellow

Black Kettle’s Flag

The Mind Of The Wind

The Great Circle

Grandfather Moon

No Trespassing

Gone Fishin’

POET OF THE LAUNDROMAT

Room Full Of Windows—

Misspelled, Mercurial

Topsy Turvy

Rural Squirrel

Upon Your Lips, Imaginings

Around Me Slowly

My Ballad To Beauty

To The Past & Its Glory

Stigma Of A Kiss

The Flower That Wilts

Garden Varieties

Chemical Equations

Two Hands Have I

Getting Better

Poet Of The Laundromat

Avenue Of Maples

My World Too

How My Lips Are Forgotten

SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOP

Womb Of My Left Ear

Submission To The Muse

Self-Addressed Envelop

I Had A Giant Dream Last Night

Renouncing My Disguises

The Awakening

The Bottom-Line

Perturbations Of The Muse

Motion Sickness

Neon Utopian Nowhere

Signs!

Worthy Causes

In The Belly Of The Big Bear

Three Deer Crossings

Whale-Watching In Quebec

The Book Of Tea

Invisible Inks

The Poet’s Foot

Garage Sale

AN OLD SHOE BOX

Stardust In Our Bones—

The Rituals Of Night Quicken

Touching Bottom

Night’s Insect Noises

Imago

Lapses Of The Muse

Above The Tree-Line

Souls Of The Dead That Dwell In Me

An Old Shoebox

New Moon Motion

Hints From The Moon

The Dog With The Butterfly Nose

Past Lives Revisited

The Hermit

Nameless We Are Born

Adagio To Light

Grass Of Parnassus

On The Tips Of Tongues

Mementos Of Earth;

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Grateful acknowledgement is due the editors and publishers of a number of publications in which the following poems, including some earlier versions, first appeared:

Bear Creek Haiku: New Moon Motion; Blue Collar Review: Signs!, The Bottom-Line, The Quilting Bee; Clark Street Review: Black Kettle’s Flag; Cover of Darkness: Imago ; Current Accounts: Self-Addressed Envelop, Topsy Turvy ; Dream Fantasy International: Last Night I Had a Giant Dream; Floyd County Moonshine: The Legend of Uncle Clifford, Under Moon & Morning Star ; FreeXpression: Two Hands Have I ; Hidden Oak: Flower That Wilts; Krax: Poet of the Laundromat ; Mr. Marquis Museletter: Rhyming by the Numbers, Honeycomb Poem, & Ears in the Earth ; Nomad’s Choir: Mind of the Wind ; POEM: In the Belly of the Big Bear, On the Tips of Tongues ; Poetalk: The Book of Tea, Lapses of the Muse ; Poets’Espresso: Garage Sale, Garden Varieties, Dog with the Butterfly Nose, Grass of Parnassus, How My Lips Are Forgotten, Stigma of a Kiss; Quantum Leap: Invisible Inks, Upon Your Lips, Imaginings ; Rockland Review: Getting Better; Sacred Journey & Ascent Aspirations: Adagio to Light ; Saranac Review: Whale-Watching in Quebec ; Ship of Fools: Holy Grotesques; Society of Classical Poets: Hints from the Moon, Touching Bottom, No Trespassing ; Soul Fountain: Perturbations of the Muse; Tale Spinners: Barefoot Boy; Texas Wesleyan University: Chemical Equations, My Ballad to Beauty ; The Awakening Review: Renouncing My Disguises, The Awakening ; The Lives of Artists & Ceremony: Sixteen Kinds of Snow ; The Lyric: Around Me Slowly, Above the Tree Line, Submission to the Muse ; The Pen: The Great Circle ; The Poet’s Art & Pennine Ink: The Poet’s Foot ;