These poems are the result of spontaneous pressure from my mental and physical self: written during a full time commitment to raising a family and teaching in an American Public High School. Plans were not laid for the unity of them. These writings are sudden solidifications composed in a mental rush of thought. Behind them are ideas from years of living that have quickly become conjealed in a literary form. Though I do not consider myself a professional poet reading and writing for the purpose of earning a living, I have spent much time studying poetry. Emily Dickinson, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robinson Jeffers and Shakespeare, of course, were among those most stressed.