My hope in producing this small collection is the hope of every writer: that each reader might find something that pleases, even delights and to this end I have chosen poems that cut a wide swath through a range of sentiments without any particularly rigid or formal organizing principle. Some of the poems are topical, some not so much but I have tried to make most of them accessible. No doubt this will be seen by some as a weakness but I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling that poetry, like other forms of art has fallen victim to the kaleidoscopic, in which the artist throws together disparate units and delights in standing back and envisioning the reader scratching her head and wondering.say what? From the unmade bed that insists on an entire floor in the art gallery to the pages of the monthly literary journals the trend is ever present in its enthusiasm to bend art toward the inchoate and the incoherent. Only history will decide whether this is a pause in the evolution of art or a special period of decadence reserved for the faux highbrow, though of course the two are not incompatible. I can only say that therein I don't aspire. But I do hope to provide a little joy.