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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

Cohabitation

Moths, unnerving as a loose power line sparking the drip-filled August air with high voltage — it is their randomness that frightens…

Apr 23

Apr 23

Sizzle

not sound but feel, when that arrow of adrenalin flies down my arteries, vision clouds, like waking up broken on pavement only to see…

Apr 23

Apr 23

Moonlit

It’s the moon that triggers — full gibbous rising through leafless sweetgums, hickories and elms. Plumb lines reaching from the knoll…

Apr 13

Apr 13

Leaf Pigments

Trees speak their names: red oak and maple, yellow poplar — obvious, no? But red just mimes the aging shift of emerald leaves to the dark…

Apr 13

Apr 13

Softness

My Mother passed down guilt and the work ethic, heirlooms that serve through crisis and calm. When

Apr 13

Apr 13

Obituary (Props to Victoria Chang)

Sylvia Siegel was born in Rochester, NY, on September 29, 1918. The daughter of Jewish immigrants, no that’s not how I want to start…

Apr 9

Apr 9

Flight 348, Atlanta to Sacramento

Glancing over at the Gen Zer sporting crimson stilettos kitty corner from me in seat 23C, I notice the brim of her ball cap is pinned with…

Apr 9

Apr 9

My Personal Relationship With the Avocado: History and Evolution

Avocado, Alligator pear, Avocado pear.

Feb 21

Feb 21

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…

Feb 21

Feb 21

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…

Feb 21

Feb 21

Gary David Grossman

Gary David Grossman

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

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