Why does somebody (with various ailments and soon to enter his ninetieth year) compile poems? Simply because there is very little time left for a project planned, promised, and expected when he moved from California. A generation late, this collection of poems published in various countries shares and celebrates life's different aspects.

The author, “Main Line back east” schooled, now lives in a town bordering Mexico. First poem published was at age twelve, anonymously. Next was a prize winner in college. Then no poems until retirement. This volume ends another hiatus.