Casual Burning

By Robert G. Gardner

CASUAL BURNING is a collection of poems that uncover and strip away the flawed, yet redemptive human qualities found just below the surface of a cold, imperfect world. These are the poet's word pictures, confessions, and observations--fragile bits of discovery and hard lessons learned at a volatile interface between technology, religion, and culture.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert G. Gardner
• Release date: Jan 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215031629

Robert G. Gardner

RG Gardner is a writer, editor, and author with a FULL CONTACT focus on the power and potential of the written word. He's served as a communications strategy expert for such Fortune 500 corporations as RCA, GE, Lockheed Martin, and Computer Sciences Corporation. As a creative artist and change agent, he is also committed to creating content in any form that advances the forces of constructive and positive activism.Gardner's book, "Full Contact Writing: How to Win With Fearless Communication in a 'Show No Mercy' Workplace,"continues to draw high praise from professionals at all organizational levels and disciplines. In addition, his constantly expanding and ever-eclectic body of fiction and nonfiction includes "Casual Burning," a collection of confessional poems on loss and redemption in a world turned upside down, and "Reverb: Life-Changing Wisdom from a World of Big Thinkers." Gardner's most recent nonfiction study is "Big Bullets, Big Holes--Terror, Outrage, and Grief: Frontline Notes from America's Battlegrounds."

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CASUAL BURNING

Poems

Robert Gardner

CASUAL BURNING

Poems

Robert Gardner

Copyright 2023 by Robert Gardner

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Contents

Box of Holes

Two Sacred Things

Henry's Wake

After Lunch

As If

Merge

Mini Mart Saturday Night

Objects in Mirror

Impossible to Tell

Pope Near Death

A Higher Calling

Via Crucis

Tie that Binds

Dredging

Ellen

Pan Handle Riff

Smoke Break

St. Tara

King of the Buzz Clips

Sometimes the Help Will Fool You