About
The origin of this book
I wrote this book and printed maybe three copies of it in May 1985. It consists of extracts from my journal as I traveled on Amtrack from San Francisco to Chicago, New York City, Austin, Los Angeles, San Diego, and then home. Many hours staring from the windows of the trains:
- The San Francisco Zephyr
- The Lake Shore Limited
- The National Limited
- The Inter-American
- The Sunset Limited
- The San Diegan
- The Coast Starlight
Links and shortcuts
In any page, you can click on or touch links to jump around in this book.
- Each entry in the contents links to the poem.
- The title for a poem links back to the contents, highlighting the entry for the poem.
- Words in the headers and footers link to the index, the contents, a listing of books by the author, to this page, and to the previous and next poems in the book.
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).
| Context | Keys | Jump to / Behavior |
|---|---|---|
| cover | ⇧ ⌥ ◄ | Books by Tom Sharp |
| ⇧ ⌥ ▲ | About Tom Sharp | |
| ⇧ ⌥ ► | about this book (this page) | |
| ⌥ ▼ | select the next item in the contents | |
| ⌥ ▲ | select the previous item in the contents | |
| ⌥ ► | open the selected page | |
| ⌥ ⏎ | open the selected page | |
| poem | ⇧ ⌥ ▲ | cover |
| ⌥ ◄ | cover | |
| ⌥ ▲ | open the previous page | |
| ⌥ ▼ | open the next page | |
| ⌥ ► | about this book (this page) |
The author
Tom Sharp, Ph.D., holds twenty patents, worked as a programmer for IBM, is a member of Seldovia Village Tribe, and is the author of numerous books.
Tom wrote the poems and painted the Chinese character.
You may email tom/AT/sharpgiving/DOT/-c-o-m-/ to share comments on this work.
