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    Forgotten Phone Numbers
    Forgotten Phone Numbers
    Forgotten Phone Numbers
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    Forgotten Phone Numbers

    By Del Greer

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    I was 33 years old when my wife suddenly passed away, and I learned that till death do us part is not the same thing as happily ever after. This is a collection of the things I wrote while I was learning how to work with ever after. If you've ever lost anyone, been betrayed by anyone, or been surprised to learn that forever is a much shorter time than you were expecting, some of these things might make sense to you, too.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDel Greer
    Release dateMay 9, 2016
    ISBN9781311989352
    Forgotten Phone Numbers
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    Del Greer

    Del Greer was born in Arkansas in 1976, and now resides in Carroll County, Maryland, with his wife, five daughters, and three cats. He served in the US Air Force for 19 years before retiring in 2014; he studied Liberal Arts at Excelsior College (NY) and English at National University (Calif). His first collection of poetry, "Forgotten Phone Numbers," has just been published in paperback and via Smashwords.

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      Forgotten Phone Numbers - Del Greer

      Forgotten Phone Numbers

      by Del Greer

      Forgotten Phone Numbers

      Del Greer

      Copyright 2016 Del Greer

      Distributed by Smashwords

      Please direct inquiries to delgreer@writeme.com.

      The cover art is copyright © 2015 by Sage Greer. Please direct inquiries to sagegreer@innocent.com.

      Dedication:

      To the five girls who raised me – Kayla, Sage, Ava, Mia, Zoe, thank you for helping me to grow up.

      Acknowledgments:

      The woman to whom I am blissfully bound by marital bliss, Kimberly, had to endure a lot of distraction, a lot of confusion, and a lot of desperation while I was trying to write the poems that you're holding. She never (at least, rarely) lost patience with me, and she never stopped urging me to follow my voice, even when neither of us knew what I was trying to say. She is my tireless fountain of strength, and remains my role model and snugglebunny.

      This book is a direct result of meeting Jerre Fine, one of the most fearless men I've ever known. He introduced me to Lauren Zuniga, through whom I found Kai Coggin and Andrea Gibson and a whole world of poets denouncing the heteronormative hegemony, and he's spent decades demonstrating that if you know you are something, the entire world should never be enough to prevent you from being that something as perfectly, powerfully, and courageously as you can. Without you, Jerre, there is no book. I respect and admire you as much as anyone I've ever known, and I'm grateful for your teaching.

      Table of Contents

      Forgotten Phone Numbers

      Sideburns

      Pepper Tree

      First Widowing

      Owning

      Interlude 1 – The Window

      Sometimes to Heal

      Winter Sunrise

      Start Again

      Almost to March

      Interlude 2 – Ferdowsi

      Fingernails

      Mountains

      Love in Ether

      Across

      Interlude 3 – Three Steps

      Currency

      All the Way Up

      Dead Tree

      Forgotten Phone Numbers

      I wonder

      when I forgot

      her old phone number, or our

      old address

      I

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