Staying the Course

Assignments building,
Intersections of projects, time management, control
Finding my way, back from panic
Believing I can do it
Finding less surprise
In good grades in each class
Not letting the stress get me
Knowing/ understanding that we each have
Different skills, growing strengths
Memo 2 I will beat you
Cases and secondary sources
Where state law is missing
Shepardize or KeyCite
Using good law
Ideas coming together again
So I can feel able
To live, not just study.

All of my poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 40,760+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Richness

Vetted, checked, rechecked
Branch on branch
Dead ends and richness
Teasing truths from the muck
Seeing possibilities in hypothetical,
Looping back, bending
Different pathways, self-education
Adult learners – hands on
Fingers deep in soil
Rich wet earth

Like buttah rolling off the tongue
Richness and robust
Feel the words in your mind
Good yankee stock
Caressing the words
Digging in to the Law
Tilling the law
Where you find it

----

edited December 18, 2015

Richness – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/richness-v2.html

posted March 19, 2004

Started 10/11/01 15:28 to 15:29

Completed 10/17/01 1:24

Richness

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/richness.html

All of my poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 40,400+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Meticulous

Meticulous was the word
That came to mom and me
Simultaneously to describe
Dad and how he approached almost
Everything he did in life.

A list of everything to take for a ski trip
Researching skis or tennis rackets
Or wine before buying the best.
Packing the car so well that
We sometimes took pictures of the
Full trunk, then the pile of stuff
It had held.

Wanting to be at the base of the lift
Before it started for the day.
Telling us to be sure we had everything we wanted
But bringing all of what we needed
Because he was the dad.
Skiing behind the rest of the family
To be sure we were all safe
As we went down the slopes.

Blocks of wood to hold skis at the right height
For waxing, kept in the same black tool box
With the iron, files, waxes, and straps.
Knots on a string to strength his eyes.
The logic of the Atkins diet
Or Nutri-system’s strict rules.

A pad of narrow white lined paper
With columns for the date of an invoice,
The name of the provider, the amount of the bill,
The amount paid, and the amount remaining due,
All written with a freshly sharpened Ticonderoga #3 pencil.
Juggling bills.

The precision of the cabinets
In our kitchen,
Made by his hands
Or of the boards to traverse the slope
In the few inches between
The porch and the kitchen
Cut just right in his shop.

Masonry drill bits, nail guns, studs
To hold pegboard to the cement walls
For his organized tools.

Making a backyard ice rink
Just so, in spite of the dip in the back left corner,
With patient, thin layers of water
To keep the ice where we wanted it.

Explaining to a Friendly’s waiter or waitress
How to make a vanilla milkshake
With lime sherbet ice cream
(You have to blend it extra to get it smooth).
How to make a Big Beef with the setup,
Or a salad plate without the extra lettuce
For presentation.

He knew what he wanted and
How to do it.
Just so.

------ 

edited December 29, 2015

Demons – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/demons-v2.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/demons-v2_29.html

edited December 29, 2015

Did You Hear Her Cry – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/did-you-hear-her-cry-v2.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/did-you-hear-her-cry-v2_29.html

edited December 29, 2015

The Crash – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-crash-v2.html

edited December 18, 2015

The Submariner – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-submariner-v2.html

&

edited December 17, 2015

Meticulous – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/meticulous-v2.html

&

edited December 18, 2015

Adam Asked – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/adam-asked-v2.html

==========

edited October 22, 2015

Did you brace for impact – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/did-you-brace-for-impact-v2.html

edicted October 22, 2015

Mile Marker 19 – v8

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/mile-marker-19-v8.html

(editing original)

edited October 5, 2015

Like the Venus Fly Trap – v9

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/like-venus-fly-trap-v9.html

(editing version 5)

&

edited October 3, 2015

Why on this day – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-on-this-day-v3.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-on-this-day-v3_5.html

(editing original)

edited October 19, 2014

Why on this day – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-on-this-day-v2.html

July 1, 2014

Why on this day

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-on-this-day.html

“My Prayers Weekend!”

“Next Day Stretch”

draft a note to God

about a day when you struggled

with a big question

for June 29, 2014

read June 30, 2014

&

edited June 27, 2014

A vivid memory – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-vivid-memory-v2.html

June 27, 2014

A vivid memory

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-vivid-memory.html

Matthew 28:20 (NRSV)

Romans 8:31-39

Upper Room Daily Devotional

“In Dark Times”

http://devotional.upperroom.org/devotionals/2014-06-26 

by Don Greeley

about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml

for June 26, 2014

read June 27, 2014

Upper Room Daily Devotional

for March and April 2014

http://devotional.upperroom.org/issues/may-jun%202014

&

edited August 15, 2015

Here it comes – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/08/here-it-comes-v3.html

(editing version 2)

edited January 12, 2014

Here it comes – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/here-it-comes-v2.html

January 12, 2014

Here it comes

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/here-it-comes.html

January 12, 2014

I am not ready

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/i-am-not-ready.html

(conversation by Dean McKenney about his

bad car accident 40 years ago)

January 12, 2014

an accounting to God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/an-accounting-to-god.html

January 12, 2014

Honor their walk

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/honor-their-walk.html

Romans 14:10-12

Romans 14:1-12

Romans 14

Men’s Bible Study

led by Steve Curtis

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

Patten, ME

January 12, 2014

&

edited August 4, 2015

Like the Venus Fly Trap – v8

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/08/like-venus-fly-trap-v8.html

(editing version 5)

edited May 9, 2015

Ten Years – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/ten-years-v2.html

April 23, 2004

Ten Years

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/04/ten-years.html

see also

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edited January 11, 2014

Mile Marker 19 – v7

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/mile-marker-19-v7.html

(editing version 6)

Edited November 9, 2013

Mile Marker 19 – v6

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/mile-marker-19-v6.html

(editing version 3)

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edited March 21, 2015

Like the Venus Fly Trap – v7

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/03/like-venus-fly-trap-v7.html

(editing version 5)

edited December 3, 2014

Like the Venus Fly Trap – v6

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/12/like-venus-fly-trap-v6.html

(editing version 3)

Edited November 9, 2013

“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v5”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/like-venus-fly-trap-v5.html

Edited October 24, 2013

“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v4”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/like-venus-fly-trap-v4.html

Edited October 11, 2013

“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/like-venus-fly-trap-v3.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/like-venus-fly-trap-v2.html

December 20, 2012

“Like the Venus Fly Trap”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/like-venus-fly-trap.html

edited February 11, 2014

“hiding in the ice – v9”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/hiding-in-ice-v9.html

edited January 4, 2014

“hiding in the ice – v8”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/hiding-in-ice-v8.html

(editing version 5)

Edited September 28, 2013

“hiding in the ice – v7”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/hiding-in-ice-v7.html

 (editing version 3)

Edited September 28, 2013

“hiding in the ice – v6”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/hiding-in-ice-v6.html

(editing version 2)

Edited September 25, 2013

“hiding in the ice – v5”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/hiding-in-ice-v5.html

Edited August 2, 2013

“hiding in the ice – v4”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/hiding-in-ice-v4.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“hiding in the ice – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/hiding-in-ice-v3.html

Edited December 21, 2012

“hiding in the ice – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/hiding-in-ice-v2.html

December 21, 2012

“hiding in the ice”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/hiding-in-ice.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“Animated / Evil – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/animated-evil-v2.html

December 20, 2012

“Animated / Evil”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/animated-evil.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“A latent danger – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-latent-danger-v3.html

December 20, 2012

“A latent danger – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-latent-danger-v2.html

“A latent danger”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-latent-danger.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“Smiling in the freezing – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/smiling-in-freezing-v2.html

December 20, 2012

“Smiling in the freezing”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-water-changing-life-giving-elixir.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“A frozen trap – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-frozen-trap-v2.html

December 20, 2012

“A frozen trap”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-frozen-trap.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“was the road innocent – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/was-road-innocent-v2.html

December 21, 2012

“was the road innocent”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/was-road-innocent.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“Did the ice know – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/did-ice-know-v2.html

December 20, 2012

“Did the ice know”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/did-ice-know.html

series of new poems

also about my father’s death,

after reviewing poem by Jacob Montgomery,

“Icy Lanes”,

(see more of his poems at:

http://soggytractor.wordpress.com )

and exchanging emails with him about that poem

and my father’s death

2/14/1991

&

Edited August 22, 2013

“eyes not shut – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/eyes-not-shut-v2.html

August 22, 2013

“eyes not shut”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/eyes-not-shut.html

a poem in conjured after reading poem

“TATTOOS AND ATTITUDE”

https://www.facebook.com/chip.bergeron2/posts/503630106394453

by Chip Bergeron

https://www.facebook.com/chip.bergeron2

http://www.authorsden.com/chipbergeron

&

Edited September 20, 2012

new poem, “Did you brace for impact”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/did-you-brace-for-impact.html

&

Edited September 20, 2012

“Mile Marker 19 – v5”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/mile-marker-19-v5.html

&

Edited September 12, 2012

“Mile Marker 19 – v4”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/mile-marker-19-v2.html

editing version 2 below

&

Edited September 12, 2012

“Mile Marker 19 – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/mile-marker-19-v3.html

editing the original again

inspired by reading it at Poets’ Corner

monthly poetry reading,

at the Suncook Senior Center

September 10, 2012

&

edited June 6, 2012 (adding an additional last stanza)

“Mile Marker 19 – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/06/mile-marker-19-v2.html

&

October 2, 2011

Did You Hear Her Cry

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/10/did-you-hear-her-cry.html

after rereading earlier poem,

“Mile Marker 19”

&

Edited April 23, 2013

“No Life in Your Eyes – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/04/no-life-in-your-eyes-v2.html

February 11, 2011

“No Life in Your Eyes”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/02/no-life-in-your-eyes.html

remembering the 20^th anniversary

of my father’s death, February 14, 1991

written at the House of Purpose coffeehouse

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Purpose/298439882520

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/The-House-Of-Purpose/357853918881

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=132438993489979

Hillsboro, NH

February 11, 2011

&

new poem February 11, 2014

Where you are scattered

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/where-you-are-scattered.html

posted March 22, 2004

written 2/26/2001

Adam Asked

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/adam-asked.html

posted March 18, 2004

written March 6, 2001

Meticulous

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/meticulous.html

posted March 17, 2004

written 3/2/2001 and 3/5/2001

The Submariner

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/submariner.html

posted February 18, 2004

March 2, 2001

“Ashes”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/ashes.html

posted February 18, 2004

March 2, 2001

“Home Again”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/home-again.html

&

posted March 10, 2004

written April 3, 2001 8:47am

Demons

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/demons.html

&

posted February 14, 2004

(the 13^th anniversary of my father’s fatal accident)

written June 18, 2001 10:54pm

The Crash

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/crash.html

about my father's death

February 14, 1991

and my car accident

the day I applied to law school

&

posted February 8, 2004

original version written 5/20/2000

“Mile Marker 19”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/mile-marker-19_08.html

posted to my blog on February 8, 2004,

as the 15^th poem put on the site -

about my father’s fatal car accident

near Mile Marker 19

on the Spaulding Turnpike

Rochester, NH

February 14, 1991 at 7:02pm

Valentine’s Day

All of my poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 40,470+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

The Submariner

Living inside himself
Able to be at peace
In cramped quarters
Defined a part
Only in the
Service for a few
Years but a
Solitary man
Finding fulfillment
In his own passions
All his days.
Focused and driven,
An analytical mind
Able to see
In three dimensions
From tool and die
To CAD/CAM and
The logical steps
In between
That drove
The technology
Of his work life.
An expert on the
Cutting edge.

------ 

edited December 29, 2015

Demons – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/demons-v2.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/demons-v2_29.html

edited December 29, 2015

Did You Hear Her Cry – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/did-you-hear-her-cry-v2.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/did-you-hear-her-cry-v2_29.html

edited December 29, 2015

The Crash – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-crash-v2.html

edited December 18, 2015

The Submariner – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-submariner-v2.html

&

edited December 17, 2015

Meticulous – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/meticulous-v2.html

&

edited December 18, 2015

Adam Asked – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/adam-asked-v2.html

==========

edited October 22, 2015

Did you brace for impact – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/did-you-brace-for-impact-v2.html

edicted October 22, 2015

Mile Marker 19 – v8

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/mile-marker-19-v8.html

(editing original)

edited October 5, 2015

Like the Venus Fly Trap – v9

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/like-venus-fly-trap-v9.html

(editing version 5)

&

edited October 3, 2015

Why on this day – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-on-this-day-v3.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-on-this-day-v3_5.html

(editing original)

edited October 19, 2014

Why on this day – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-on-this-day-v2.html

July 1, 2014

Why on this day

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-on-this-day.html

“My Prayers Weekend!”

“Next Day Stretch”

draft a note to God

about a day when you struggled

with a big question

for June 29, 2014

read June 30, 2014

&

edited June 27, 2014

A vivid memory – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-vivid-memory-v2.html

June 27, 2014

A vivid memory

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-vivid-memory.html

Matthew 28:20 (NRSV)

Romans 8:31-39

Upper Room Daily Devotional

“In Dark Times”

http://devotional.upperroom.org/devotionals/2014-06-26 

by Don Greeley

about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml

for June 26, 2014

read June 27, 2014

Upper Room Daily Devotional

for March and April 2014

http://devotional.upperroom.org/issues/may-jun%202014

&

edited August 15, 2015

Here it comes – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/08/here-it-comes-v3.html

(editing version 2)

edited January 12, 2014

Here it comes – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/here-it-comes-v2.html

January 12, 2014

Here it comes

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/here-it-comes.html

January 12, 2014

I am not ready

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/i-am-not-ready.html

(conversation by Dean McKenney about his

bad car accident 40 years ago)

January 12, 2014

an accounting to God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/an-accounting-to-god.html

January 12, 2014

Honor their walk

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/honor-their-walk.html

Romans 14:10-12

Romans 14:1-12

Romans 14

Men’s Bible Study

led by Steve Curtis

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

Patten, ME

January 12, 2014

&

edited August 4, 2015

Like the Venus Fly Trap – v8

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/08/like-venus-fly-trap-v8.html

(editing version 5)

edited May 9, 2015

Ten Years – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/ten-years-v2.html

April 23, 2004

Ten Years

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/04/ten-years.html

see also

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edited January 11, 2014

Mile Marker 19 – v7

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/mile-marker-19-v7.html

(editing version 6)

Edited November 9, 2013

Mile Marker 19 – v6

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/mile-marker-19-v6.html

(editing version 3)

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edited March 21, 2015

Like the Venus Fly Trap – v7

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/03/like-venus-fly-trap-v7.html

(editing version 5)

edited December 3, 2014

Like the Venus Fly Trap – v6

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/12/like-venus-fly-trap-v6.html

(editing version 3)

Edited November 9, 2013

“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v5”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/like-venus-fly-trap-v5.html

Edited October 24, 2013

“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v4”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/like-venus-fly-trap-v4.html

Edited October 11, 2013

“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/like-venus-fly-trap-v3.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/like-venus-fly-trap-v2.html

December 20, 2012

“Like the Venus Fly Trap”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/like-venus-fly-trap.html

edited February 11, 2014

“hiding in the ice – v9”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/hiding-in-ice-v9.html

edited January 4, 2014

“hiding in the ice – v8”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/hiding-in-ice-v8.html

(editing version 5)

Edited September 28, 2013

“hiding in the ice – v7”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/hiding-in-ice-v7.html

 (editing version 3)

Edited September 28, 2013

“hiding in the ice – v6”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/hiding-in-ice-v6.html

(editing version 2)

Edited September 25, 2013

“hiding in the ice – v5”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/hiding-in-ice-v5.html

Edited August 2, 2013

“hiding in the ice – v4”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/hiding-in-ice-v4.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“hiding in the ice – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/hiding-in-ice-v3.html

Edited December 21, 2012

“hiding in the ice – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/hiding-in-ice-v2.html

December 21, 2012

“hiding in the ice”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/hiding-in-ice.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“Animated / Evil – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/animated-evil-v2.html

December 20, 2012

“Animated / Evil”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/animated-evil.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“A latent danger – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-latent-danger-v3.html

December 20, 2012

“A latent danger – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-latent-danger-v2.html

“A latent danger”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-latent-danger.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“Smiling in the freezing – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/smiling-in-freezing-v2.html

December 20, 2012

“Smiling in the freezing”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-water-changing-life-giving-elixir.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“A frozen trap – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-frozen-trap-v2.html

December 20, 2012

“A frozen trap”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-frozen-trap.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“was the road innocent – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/was-road-innocent-v2.html

December 21, 2012

“was the road innocent”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/was-road-innocent.html

Edited December 26, 2012

“Did the ice know – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/did-ice-know-v2.html

December 20, 2012

“Did the ice know”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/did-ice-know.html

series of new poems

also about my father’s death,

after reviewing poem by Jacob Montgomery,

“Icy Lanes”,

(see more of his poems at:

http://soggytractor.wordpress.com )

and exchanging emails with him about that poem

and my father’s death

2/14/1991

&

Edited August 22, 2013

“eyes not shut – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/eyes-not-shut-v2.html

August 22, 2013

“eyes not shut”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/eyes-not-shut.html

a poem in conjured after reading poem

“TATTOOS AND ATTITUDE”

https://www.facebook.com/chip.bergeron2/posts/503630106394453

by Chip Bergeron

https://www.facebook.com/chip.bergeron2

http://www.authorsden.com/chipbergeron

&

Edited September 20, 2012

new poem, “Did you brace for impact”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/did-you-brace-for-impact.html

&

Edited September 20, 2012

“Mile Marker 19 – v5”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/mile-marker-19-v5.html

&

Edited September 12, 2012

“Mile Marker 19 – v4”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/mile-marker-19-v2.html

editing version 2 below

&

Edited September 12, 2012

“Mile Marker 19 – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/mile-marker-19-v3.html

editing the original again

inspired by reading it at Poets’ Corner

monthly poetry reading,

at the Suncook Senior Center

September 10, 2012

&

edited June 6, 2012 (adding an additional last stanza)

“Mile Marker 19 – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/06/mile-marker-19-v2.html

&

October 2, 2011

Did You Hear Her Cry

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/10/did-you-hear-her-cry.html

after rereading earlier poem,

“Mile Marker 19”

&

Edited April 23, 2013

“No Life in Your Eyes – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/04/no-life-in-your-eyes-v2.html

February 11, 2011

“No Life in Your Eyes”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/02/no-life-in-your-eyes.html

remembering the 20^th anniversary

of my father’s death, February 14, 1991

written at the House of Purpose coffeehouse

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Purpose/298439882520

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/The-House-Of-Purpose/357853918881

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=132438993489979

Hillsboro, NH

February 11, 2011

&

new poem February 11, 2014

Where you are scattered

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/where-you-are-scattered.html

posted March 22, 2004

written 2/26/2001

Adam Asked

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/adam-asked.html

posted March 18, 2004

written March 6, 2001

Meticulous

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/meticulous.html

posted March 17, 2004

written 3/2/2001 and 3/5/2001

The Submariner

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/submariner.html

posted February 18, 2004

March 2, 2001

“Ashes”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/ashes.html

posted February 18, 2004

March 2, 2001

“Home Again”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/home-again.html

&

posted March 10, 2004

written April 3, 2001 8:47am

Demons

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/demons.html

&

posted February 14, 2004

(the 13^th anniversary of my father’s fatal accident)

written June 18, 2001 10:54pm

The Crash

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/crash.html

about my father's death

February 14, 1991

and my car accident

the day I applied to law school

&

posted February 8, 2004

original version written 5/20/2000

“Mile Marker 19”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/mile-marker-19_08.html

posted to my blog on February 8, 2004,

as the 15^th poem put on the site -

about my father’s fatal car accident

near Mile Marker 19

on the Spaulding Turnpike

Rochester, NH

February 14, 1991 at 7:02pm

Valentine’s Day

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