{"product_id":"yes-yes-gary-l-galsworth-9781453723425","title":"Yes Yes: poems","description":"As a kid, I couldn't wait to get started. There were markers--important starting points, gates-opening to such huge possibilities. And they all arrived in their time, like a parade, a holiday procession.I jumped in, climbed on, drove (or hitch hiked) to them, almost breathless with anticipation.\u003cbr\u003eI signed up, fought my way through, said \u003ci\u003eyes\u003c\/i\u003e enthusiastically. I couldn't wait. It also came to pass that I was turned down, thrown out (or told, politely but unequivocally, to leave)-and once, unexpectedly asked, \"Don't you ever shut up?\"\u003cbr\u003eIn the course of events a spiritual teacher even gave me a Buddhist name, \"Dainin.\" \"What does that mean, sir?\" \"It means \u003ci\u003eGreat Patience\u003c\/i\u003e,\" he said. \"But sir, I don't have much patience.\" \"You will,\" he answered. I couldn't wait.\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes Yes,\" a collection of poems written over a number of years, is a voice of this journey. The odd thing is, if you were to ask me to tell you my story, I couldn't find the words. It would be all clues and hints and shadows. Yet this collection has a beating heart, perhaps more than one.\u003cbr\u003eThe style is varied, but mostly straightforward, even plain....\"Cat bones, my bones, share the same old bag.The same sinews tie and work us.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe poems also express the wonderment, the simplicity, of Love.... \"The very last finger kissed to the very tip, and from this very tip I leap into your grey-green eyes and they close over me.\"\u003cbr\u003eAnd of loss....\"Can we stay close just now, keep talking, whisper? I will. Lean over here--whisper to me.\"\u003cbr\u003eAnd of the unembellished joy in living one's story....\"Resting against each other, out of the sun bound by daydreams and half closed-eyes.\" And snapshots of that experience ...\"It's spring and cottonwoods reach to drink the moon as it drifts across a hundred ponds.\"\u003cbr\u003eOne hopes that the poems are also a place where the poem and the reader \"...disappear into each other.\"\u003cbr\u003e Gary Galsworth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary L. Galsworth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1453723420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781453723425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d","brand":"Gary L. Galsworth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49162526163199,"sku":"9781453723425","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/yes-yes-gary-l-galsworth-9781453723425","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}