Posing for Rodin

By Charles McGrail

Reflections and observations gathered from conversations around the kitchen table and quiet moments in front of an open fire.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fintan and Turtle
• Release date: Oct 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781944360016

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Posing for Rodin

(and other random thoughts)

C.S. McGrail

Fintan and Turtle Publishing Co.

Syracuse, New York U.S.A.

Posing for Rodin

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ISBN 978-1-944360-01-6

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Table of Contents

Something Worth Shopping For

That Would Hurt

Posing for Rodin

Grumblings

Someday

Let’s

Things My Father Meant

Somewhere South of Should Be

Coyotes

Things I’ve Done

The Festering Seeds of Worry

Lessons in Liquidity

Somewhere Along the Way

The Sound of One Hand Napping

Beneath the Lighthouse

The Blood of Au

Finding Value at the Mall

Smoke Signals

The River

Conversation with a 9-year-old

Fishing off the Island of Doubt

Another Poet’s Dead

They’re not Opposites

Remember to Wipe your Feet

Something Worth Shopping For

No one talks about it now, but he was married once before, years ago, to a Turkish girl. He was working over there when he met her.

They dated for six weeks, honeymooned for two,

then he was