Continuity: A Book of Poems

By Xlibris US

C. N. Cantelon is not, as one publisher reported, a female Buddhist guru, living on top of a Tibetan mountain. In fact, C. N. Cantelon is a man in his mid-sixties, living on the outskirts of Seattle, and caring for his 93-year-old mother-in-law and 3-year-old grandson. He has been writing since the 1960s, primarily poetry and short prose.
C. N. stands for Charles Norton, but he often uses the nom de plume, T. C. Worthe, which name was first used on poems and quips posted on the student message board at Lewis and Clark College, in the late sixties. Charles took creative writing classes at Lewis and Clark from William Stafford, Vern Rutsala and James Liddy, among others. His poems have been published, over the years, in many magazines and anthologies, but this is the first book of his collected poems.
Hopefully, more will follow, both prose and poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493196623

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Copyright © 2014 by Charles Cantelon.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014906145

ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4931-9663-0

Softcover 978-1-4931-9664-7

eBook 978-1-4931-9662-3

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Rev. date: 04/21/2014

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Contents

Sic Transit

Poetry

The Leader

Apologies

Mysteries

The Wind

Burgundy Rose

Elbow Room

Heroes

Milton

Dragons

Hibernating

Friendships

Baby Wise

The Poet

Jian

River Song

Communication

Grace

Look

Pretenders!

Potential

Gardener

Worn

Baubles

What

Janis

Promises

Relative

An End

The Artisan

Smoke Rings

Marriage

Meeting

Crossroads

Struggle

Rip Tide

Alone

Laissez-faire

Empathy

Thinking

Baby Boomers

Hope

Players

Chivalry

Spring

DNA

Animal Reality

The Feeling

Luck

Culture

The Brick

Sic Transit

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We walked away, do you remember?

We set out to search,

perhaps, for identity

and left our homes