Allowing the Heart to Contemplate

By William Flewelling

I imagine the front cover photograph running over onto the back, as has occurred in others of my poetry books

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496909923

William Flewelling

I am a retired minister from the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) living in central Illinois. Led by a request from Mildred Corwin of Manua OH when I arrived there in 1976, I long developed and led a series of bible studies there and in LaPorte IN and New Martinsville WV. These studies proved to be very feeding to me in my pastoral work and won a certain degree of following in my congregations. My first study was on 1 Peter, chosen because I knew almost nothing about the book. I now live quietly in retirement with my wife of 54 years, a pair of dogs and several cats.

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/28/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4969-0991-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-0992-3 (e)

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Table of Contents

Foreword

1.   Waitress Jodie

2.   Cleaning For Some Next Customer

3.   Ghosts In The Hollows

4.   The Cat’s Way

5.   Beginning Again: Along The Way

6.   For An Unlikely When

7.   As My Hour Progresses

8.   After Extended Frazzle

9.   Not Writing Of Late

10.   Prelude

11.   Modified Independence

12.   The Preacher Of The Best

13.   And Then She Bows

14.   Managing The Tote

15.   The Garden By The Tree

16.   Greetings Of Farewell

17.   The Date

18.   My Friend…

19.   Soft Hint Of Early Shining Moon

20.   The Saunter Of The Doe

21.   Spring Progress

22.   A Sudden Rush

23.   Good Friday Afternoon

24.   Fond Experiment In Carriage

25.   As Rain Creeps Nearer

26.   Windfall By The Road

27.   Drawn To The Port Of Joy

28.   Nonchalance

29.   Subplot With Homily

30.   From Those Who Don’t Delay

31.   Spooked Deer

32.   A Tough Customer

33.   Doubly Caring Departure

34.   Managing

35.   Fallow Hillside Ditches

36.   A Swarm Of Finches

37.   The Sexist Lilt

38.   The Idea Of Lighting Lights

39.   Oh, Those Peepers

40.   Two Young Men Pursuing Chess

41.   In The Poet’s Quiet Hour

42.   The Vulture Takes To Wing

43.   And Then I Laughed Out Loud

44.   In The Narrow Dog Food Aisle

45.   For Guiding Song

46.   Princess

47.   Revision Mid-step

48.   For Our Short Visit

49.   Two Views From The Same Place

50.   Matching Worries

51.   The Darkened, Rumbling Afternoon In Town

52.   Guinevere And The Butterflies

53.   While Thunder Rolls

54.   The Rooms Remade

55.   The Deserted Pop Corn Tin

56.   Complaint and Disapproval

57.   The Answer To Faint Light

58.   A Further Hint

59.   Waiting Issues

60.   With Some Of Washington Post

61.   A Circulating Majesty

62.   The Sandals Provide

63.   That Hinted Lace

64.   Teasel Topper

65.   A Thoughtful Shuffle

66.   Wren To Wren

67.   Unalterably Studious

68.   Keeping Up With Youth

69.   Bated Life

70.   Language As Intrigue

71.   Emerging Yellow Flash

72.   By Flip Of Wrist

73.   Swallow Cycle

74.   Around My Leaving Gesture

75.   Traced Through The Sun Teased Tresses

76.   Wondering

77.   At Rabbit-Scent

78.   Readying To Return To Work

79.   As Grass Stands Knee High Now

80.   The Muffle Game

81.   The Sisters Fair

82.   Striking Colors

83.   A False Aplomb

84.   Carefully Allusive

85.   From Once Upon A Time And Back

86.   Appropriating Sweep

87.   Adjusting To The Narrow Strait

88.   One Butterfly

89.   She Listens

90.   Peek A Boo

91.   She Learns The Princess Role

92.   Appearing Then

93.   At Toccata

94.   Her Daddy Hugs

95.   And One Of Five

96.   Bravo

97.   What Everybody Knows

98.   The Lunch: A Pair

99.   Penn Station Pair

100.   The Sun And Wind On Unripe Hay

101.   On Second Thought

102.   Guinevere’s Intrigue

103.   Twinkling Good Bye

104.   A Moment On The Sweep Of Land

105.   As So Possessed

106.   A Shadow Image In The Glass

107.   One Seeking Bird

108.   Managing The Customers

109.   Synchronized Tails

110.   The Green Bow Signals All

111.   Twenty Or Thirty Blackbirds

112.   Our Moon-Instructed Chorus

113.   Listening

114.   Along Her Way

115.   He Loves The Full Tones Of The Organ

116.   Delight Constrained

117.   A Shy Prospectus

118.   A