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October 1999 - August 2000
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 Reflection is a good thing, as is pain, as is loss, as is gain, as is, well, you get the notion.  If not, I'll spell it out: after losing someone I'm convinced I keep
meeting lifetime after lifetime, I began to better myself...through learning and classes and reading and constant conditioning.  While this volume is spotted -
ok, deluged - with pleas to myself and to her, it keeps a sense of humor about growing amidst everything that keeps life interesting.  I think these poems were
some of the first I started sincerely editing, admitting that nothing I wrote was perfect...just like me.  Poems from this collection were later integrated into my
first and second books.
 A playful, if pointed, examination of the relations between the sexes is revealed in Closer to Nature, and my own version of a perfect mate is loosely
described in My Mismatched Mistress.  Around this time I also started to try to emulate styles of various writers, but instead of emulating
Shakespeare, I ended up with One Line of B.S. and 4 Stanzas of Similar Truths.  A twist on the usual aubade, my February 15th
Aubade was written for my annual celebration of AVD (Anti-Valentine's Day), and is still a favourite of mine to read.  Like many others, Purgatory
was inspried by a brief dream then refined into words...growing up is tough, and that fast lane can be damned intimidating.  Eve After Eden, inspired by
a photo from a friend's e-zine (Free Zone Quarterly), was written using another one of my favourite subjects, religion...or rather relious characters.
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