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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

Fatherhood

I must have changed a thousand diapers — constipated black beans, blow-outs like new lava. All five senses engaged — a river in flood…

Sep 1

Sep 1

Community

Daily, I jog our bumpy lanes — narrow, lawn-lined. My five miles bane and boon, dodging triceratops-pick-ups, and speeders oblivious to…

Sep 1

Sep 1

Enigma

Eventually, all mysteries will be solved, for we now know that American and European eels both mate in the Sargasso Sea, separate but…

Sep 1

Sep 1

Barbershop, Bishop Georgia

Scooting back into the maroon-padded chair, I hear the snap of the barber’s cape, then I left him last week, maybe the fifth time will…

Aug 7

Aug 7

Permanence

At the end of Mom’s last night I wondered how thoughts traverse closed eyelids, and which memories

Jul 13

Jul 13

Expiration Date

Our two rhododendrons died this year. The twins were twenty-four and I’m not sure why they chose to let go, maybe drought, maybe snow or…

Jul 13

Jul 13

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

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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