On Inscape's Curve

By William Flewelling

My poems help me see what is in front of me. They typically find that an image is presented, an image that seems to suggest a line of verse, just one which, when written down, enters into a cadence, a rhythm, a sense of sound and echo that evolves into a sequence of lines that flow. They flow until they stop, that is, and announce to me that the poem is, in facet, done. That is true whether the image is a raindrop or a tree, a flower or a bird, a shadow or the innuendo of faith or country: whatever. This book draws upon poems written some years ago, mostly in the years 2009 and 2015. There are also a few current poems that insist themselves into the collection as they are accumulated in the current year's file. As I revisit poems of years ago, quite often the occasion presents itself to memory - but not always so. Sometimes that occasion is as if unnecessary and, indeed, almost in the way of the poem as it has come to be. Revisiting is always a pleasure; it becomes one of the spurs toward forming the collection itself. Indeed, it s the pleasure and the satisfaction in the book that brings it about. Satisfaction is such a boon to life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728367248

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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On

Inscape’s

Curve

WILLIAM FLEWELLING

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Contents

Foreword

1. The Nurse At Standard Interview

2. Acknowledging The Moment

3. When Time Had Grown

4. The Upper Dance

5. The Ghost-like Server – And Her Table

6. Toward Simple Joys

7. A Stamp Upon Midnight

8. Not Wasting Calories

9. While Early Looking North

10. Silver Dragonflies

11. A Sweetness Entertained

12. Directives Near The Temples

13. Slow Recognition

14. Delighting In Short Hair

15. Reply

16. Two Ladies And Their Hats

17. Web Woven Spell

18. For Victory

19. As If A Laden Tray

20. Upon All Sorrow’s Sigh

21. The Intervening Eyes

22. Her Hand Knows Best

23. An Uncooled Corner

24. As She Is Sure

25. Tête-à-Tête

26. And He Will Wait In Peace

27. Home For The Month

28. One Crow’s Excitement

29. Fireflies In A Silken Night

30. A Politician In An Awkward Age

31. We Talk Of Rosemary

32. The Almost Distant Close

33. While Quietly Aside

34. Attracting Eyes

35. Kitchen Work

36. Remembering Days Of A Mine Disaster

37. The Empty Place Habitually Full

38. Head In Her Hands

39. Flavor

40. At The Last Minute

41. Leaving Leaves To Show

42. Trapped Within The Service

43. One Tiger Lily And The Many

44. Contented Concentration

45. While Subway Riding

46. With Sadness As A Shawl

47. Red Ruffles

48. Old Fondness Reappears

49. Spent

50. In Focus

51. Intent Interruption

52. Departing

53. Distracted To The Job

54. The Shade

55. Deciding To Speak

56. July Fourth, Celebrated Miles Away

57. Tangents Or Gradients?

58. She Greets Me At The Door

59. Once Seen, Then Vanished

60. Three Year Old’s Eyes

61. After We Bumble To A Close

62. The Recognized Piece