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Gary David Grossman

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My first collection of poems, (Kelsay Press & available on Amazon). These poems find the beauty and joy in daily life: nature & family

2023

Gary D. Grossman

Gary D. Grossman

Stories

My Personal Relationship With the Avocado: History and Evolution

Avocado, Alligator pear, Avocado pear.

1d ago

1d ago

Benediction

I’m sitting in the dark, as first rays coerce light through the small gap between blind and window — it is the gloaming’s unnamed…

1d ago

1d ago

MRI

Modern medicine says hello, not with a smile or twinkling eyes, but with a bang loud enough to wrench my head ninety degrees to the left…

1d ago

1d ago

Twelve Ounce Dark Roast

An abstract etching of healed white ridges

Jan 6

Jan 6

Tuesday, Late Summer, in the Blue Ridge

As if five hundred forty-six shades of green existed all at once, on each Appalachian hillside.

Jan 6

Jan 6

Debits and Credits

I’m ambivalent about space exploration the way I’m ambivalent about scrambled

Dec 22, 2024

Dec 22, 2024

Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Metaphor

Am I an object at rest or in motion?

Dec 22, 2024

Dec 22, 2024

Self-Portrait By Numbers

The graphical format of this poem has been lost due to formatting limitations

Dec 2, 2024

Dec 2, 2024

Toxicity

The last of a long line of successive actions, I turn on the kitchen light only to find an adult female cockroach attempting to slurp up…

Dec 2, 2024

Dec 2, 2024

When Spring Winds Are Strong, Wolf Spiders Balloon

They’re up on the branch tips, all eight legs en pointe — one hundred and four chitinous arachnids, their tutus matching leafless twigs…

Dec 2, 2024

Dec 2, 2024

Gary David Grossman

Gary David Grossman

Book Author

Ecology prof (emeritus), writer and poet, uke player, sculptor, runner, fly fisher, reader, gardener, all on www.garygrossman.net

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