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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

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Gary David Grossman

She Reads in Front of a Fake Zoom Background

So distracting: a beach on Fiji, Olympic rainforest, or the snow-cone mountains of the Massif Central, more beautiful than National…

1 min readMay 3, 2024

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Folklore

Gingko trees drop their leaves all at once, which may be: true, partially true, or untrue, given their cosmopolitan domestication, with…

1 min readMay 3, 2024

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The Anger of a Slapped Sky

Who can say exactly what we’ve done to bring down four inches of July sky in the last two hours of this bread-mold morning, or if it’s…

1 min readMay 3, 2024

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Eleven Ways of Participating on Zoom (revised)

I. In bed, back propped up against two pillows wearing your alma mater sweatshirt.

1 min readApr 20, 2024

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College Continues

Gary D. Grossman Published in Meat for Tea: The Valley Review 2024 v. 18:84–90,

17 min readApr 15, 2024

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A Gift

They home, like salmon to their natal stream, seeking the comfort of the only nest they’ve known. Childhood neurons triggered by beef…

1 min readApr 3, 2024

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Picking Rattlesnake Beans

Dark-roast is my first pleasure of a July morning — then it’s zoysia wet-nuzzling my toes as I walk through the backyard, and open the…

1 min readApr 3, 2024

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Leaf Out

It’s April fifth, nine-thirty am — fog tongues my forearms — gifts me with small bits of silent weather, as I run downhill on Milledge…

1 min readMar 24, 2024

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Truth Matters

So I’m running down South Lumpkin Street, earbuds uniting me with a famous poet on the famous poet poetry podcast, (snide, I know, and even…

2 min readMar 19, 2024

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Recollections

Home on a second grade afternoon, I sit at the small red formica table in Gramma’s kitchen, doing homework — inhaling thyme and lemon from…

1 min readMar 18, 2024

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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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