Jonas Mather, a retired journalist, is pushing 81 all too rapidly. He is married and has been for 59 years. He is the father of two and the grandfather of one, Jennifer Lee, an aspiring novelist and an illustrator of this volume Discouraged from serious poetry by a critical academic A deep and durable urge to create finally overwhelmed him, resulting in this wide-ranging volume composed during his retirement years. His poems also have appeared in Friends Journal and quarterly issues of the Bucks County Poetry Society’s newsletter and proceedings.