The Boy From Under The Trees

These 128 poems in 16 sections are about impressions and events that happened when I was growing up in Easton Pennsylvania in the 40's. As a kid, I was allowed to have the run of my neighborhood. With that freedom, came  the excitement  of exploration and the joy of discovery. I was left with many memories, moments that still  have a special power. The poems are in an eight-line rhyming verse form called the rispetto.  They sum up what I still keep from these beginnings.  I  now realize that under the trees of my  boyhood I first heard the other-worldly music that was to become a lifelong companion.

Illustrations are by George Jarck