Winter Harbor, Maine

Winter Harbor, Maine

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Here are the photographs that inspired this poem about a day during a family visit in Maine. 

"mist surrounds us. Spruce and jack pine recede behind / the weathered air..."

"volcanic dikes that divide the stumbled granite leviathans / fractured millions of years ago, lava filled their cracks black / bound them apart"

"...basalt dikes, crushed by the granite / they divided, crumble into steps that span / old fissures..."

"...She will not pose for me / for me she will clown and gawk..."

"...one arm raised higher than the other / like a ship’s signalman in need of flags..."

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Welcome to home of my collection of poetry "From A Mongrel Poet". In this blog I intend to share images, insights, and background information on many of the poems included in my book. In time I hope to have created an informative and entertaining companion resource for the collection. As I address individual poems I will place their posts in a tab for the section of the book in which they appear. I don't want to waste your time searching through empty pages so I will only create section tabs as I make content available. 

I hope to make this an organic process and will no doubt be adding more, in depth information to existing entries as new information is found. Though I will quote lines from poems to act as captions and to identify what a link or lexicon entry refers to, I will not be posting complete poems here at this time. As stated above, this is meant as a companion piece to the book, not a web publication of the work therein. 

This site in no way is meant to "explain" the poems in the collection but to enhance them through clarification of some of their more oblique references, and background for those spiritual,technical, historic, or scientific.  

I hope you find this blog enjoyable, useful, and worth returning to often.

~ G.w.W