Breakfast for Dinner: Poems over Easy

By Geoff Peterson

Breakfast for Dinner is a trail of poems about travel, roadside shrines, abandoned hotels, and broken promises. Mix each in a big pot and you got dinner served with a smile.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728361277

Geoff Peterson

Born just after World War II, Peterson inherited his mother's nervous system and went on to memorize and perform poetry in a lyric vein for family and card parties. Raised Catholic, the boy learned the value of dreams, visions, and the soothing aspects of prayer in unison. He later earned degrees in Literature and Writing at Eastern Washington University, and served as poetry editor for Willow Springs Magazine. With the publication of his first novel in 1989, Peterson turned his back on mainstream publishing and has not looked back. Since 2007 he has published nearly thirty books of poetry and fiction. He lives in the Southwest and still gets around.

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in

memory of James Reiter, 1932-2020

this book is cooked

I can spot a broken heart from twenty miles away.

—Jimmy Rodgers

Contents

guilty pleasures

Fine Dining

Shack Job

Pandemic

Canceled

Closing the Bars

After the Rain

Escape Clause

Seeking a Cure

Mala

Bondage

Apparition

Frank

Men at Work

Meanwhile…

Starting Over

Lending Library

Aria

Sugar-Coated

Tuning In

Before Flushing

Forecast

Roundtable

Adrift

The Coffin’s Lid

All Roads Lead to Air

The Lull

Day Room

Night Swim

Postcards

Back When

Hard Hours

Sgl Rm/No Frills

Less Time Than It Takes to Say Goodbye

Deep Focus

Last Stop

Convened With Women

Gutting It Out

Panic

First Light

Oasis

Per se

Per se (2)

Sleep Tales

Jukebox

Southwest Corridor

Ancient Ruins

Ornithology

Tomorrow

Mending Nets

Ghost Riders

Cursed

The Last Engagement

Late Night Rain

The Lion’s Mouth

Air over Water

Sunset

Nocturne

New York Lunch

Loss

Carfare

Alone, talking

Fatigue

Museum

Legends & Spells

By the Numbers

Plainsong

Man on the Inside

Harbor Watch

Darkroom

Navigation

Since You Left…

Bachelor Life

Just In

Quarantine

Out of Body

Montage

Route 95 North

Linear B

Stirring

Awakened

Lights in Tall Buildings

Routine

Tedium

Dilation

Her Last Words

Last Supper

Reading a Friend’s Poems at a Truck Stop in Santa Fe

Code Green

Happy Trails

Cactus Pricks

A Full Heart

Bone Yard

Acknowledgments

References:

About the Author

guilty pleasures

Some of these poems I’ve told myself in arguments I imagine having