Book finished---Winter from Spring

Late February, I came, I came to, I came to God with an offering, the book I have believed would happen since I was sixteen; I have dedicated this offering to Marjorie--my best friend, and to Laurel Ann, our daughter. I had begun the project seventeen years ago with the advent of my M.F.A. thesis, thirty-five poems, some troubled, but a good launching into adulthood, and being so gracious as to have raised a daughter as a sober dad, and to have stayed true to my wife, and to have made mistakes, but ever mindful of carinr for others, and of three years ago making a committment to Christ, both privately, and before the congregation of my church, the book came into being as a collection of poetry and photos. My wife and I have resolve the book as acceptance, a labor, a thorn, as in the side of St. Paul, from which I will never recover, for in as much as some doctors know, they know so little. I pray for others, I live for my wife and daughter, and I praise god. Charles Taylor