Montara Light

By Larry Haynie

During my last year of high school and the following year in Las Vegas, I discovered the counter culture there, which was made up of all the musicians, dancers, actors and stage people who worked in the major hotels. Almost any weekend one to witness spendid performaces of string quartets in the library, great theater in the community theatre, or great jazz performances like the free concerts at in my high schools Little Theater.I also hiked many miles around the mountains to the west of the city. This is the time when I began writing poetry, mainly for personal therapy and enjoyment. Later, friends and my daughter began encouraging me publish a collection. Many of my poems are about humanity’s place in the natural world, how we function in it, and perceive it. Other poems are about human interactions, in love, and war and difficult social situations. I have spent nearly as much time on the water as in the classroom, so many of these use the sea as a back drop and metaphore. How we perceive the universe is a question I am continually asking.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798823006767

Larry Haynie

I was born in Texas, but lived in Las Vegas, Nevada and graduated from high school there. I spend a lot of time in the mountains there and boating on Lake Mead. I graduated from Ohio State as an English major, became a teacher and sailing instructor in San Francisco Bay Area. I did graduate research at UC Berkeley, but got a Phd in sailing from the bay. I love sailing less for the technical exercise and more as a means of transporting myself and others into nature and other cultures.

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Published by AuthorHouse  10/17/2023

ISBN: 979-8-8230-0677-4 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023907408

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Venus Descending

Henry Jeringan’s Car

El Niño at Carmel Beach

Montpellier to Marseilles

Newport Beach

Final Wish

The Medicine Wheel

Fort Worth

Kingfisher

Tigers’ Dreams

Maoist Soldiers

Molecular

Riding the Gelding

Hippocampus Telescope

After the Fall

Rescued at a Booksale

Alsatian Christmas

Free Night at the Louvre

Nijinsky’s Feet

Into the Clouds

A Teacher’s 60th

Pont Neuf

Barbie Lunchbox

The Shadow of Grief

Passathafen

The Rapture

Limantour Beach

The Crow’s Heart

Music

Luis Seize

The Wilderness

Indigo Sunrise

Montara Light

Religious Ecstasy

The Cheerleader

Escaping

Elegy for Walter

The Petals

Chaos

The Lovers

Alchemy

The Choir Girl

The Iceman

Costa Rica

Popovich at Bat

The Birthday

Recollections

Getting Old

Coal Miner’s Elegy

Untitled

Angela

Darkened Windows

Wolfman Jack on the reel to reel

After the Concert

Hamlet was right

Removing Bamboo from the Garden

A Flower Bloom

Specious Spice

The Magician

Guadalajara

Liquid blue

Istanbul

Photograph

Elegaic Phrases

What he didn’t know

In the Garden

Words

Mill Stone

Forever Living Water

Migrateurs

Un Sueño del Mar

Flight 8193

Acknowledgements

Phil Darney is the person to whom I