About

I originally published this book in Palo Alto in August 1979. It was a cutout; I took the original pamphlet, cut out the text, and pasted in my eighteen typewritten poems.

Acknowledgements

You Don’t Say, Fourteenth Annual Commencement Booklet, California State College, Sonoma, Friday 23 May 1975; The River, Open Hand (2nd May) 1973; End of the Rainbow, Open Hand (May) 1973; You and I on the Road to the Sea, Back Roads: Mind / Body Issue, No. 7 (Spr-Sum 1975).

My title, format, and illustrations are from a pamphlet published by the Norton Company, Worcester, Mass.

You may email tom/AT/liztomsharp/DOT/-c-o-m-/ to share comments on this work.

—Tom Sharp, Seattle

Copyright © 1979, 2015 by Tom Sharp

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You may find the following keyboard equivalents to be convenient. Here I use the symbol ⌥ for the option key on Mac/OS or the alt key on Windows, ⇧ for the shift key, and ⏎ for the return (enter) key. Arrow keys are ◄ (left), ► (right), ▲ (up), and ▼ (down).

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