POEMS AND PICTURES Of FAMILY

DEDICATION: To those denied family, in whole or part.

Men are men, but Man is a woman. G.K. Chesterton

1. Grandparents

2. Pooping Partners

3. Leaving Moncton

4. How My Father Caught His Hat

5. The Bobsled

6. His Father's Code

7. Sketch (Haymaker)

8. Snowdad

9. Loving Dad

10. Had To Reconsider Dad

11. Poem Coughed Up In Pieces

12. Being Dad

13. A Very Tame Cow

14. Youthful Wisdom

15. Shame

16. Communal Stockings

17. Edict And Prayer

18. Trying To Get Mum In Perspective

19. Making Up

20. Dear Mum

21. His Mother's Birthday

22. Mum And Dad Parting

23. Sketch (His Mother's Ghost)

24. Sketch (Mum As A Kite)

25. Home (Newfoundland)

26. Waking On Saturday

27. He Has Spent Hours

28. Sprout

29. Sketch (Happiest Day)

30. Sketch (Reunited With Children)

31. Sketch (Children Seen By Surprise)

32. The Battle Of P. Ralph's Bellybutton

33. Mysterious Origins

34. New Swear Word

35. No Raging Please

36. Life Compared To A Sack

37. Ontology And Ontogeny

38. Carolyn And Answers

39. Conditioning

40. Miss Goodbody

41. Transportation

42. For Your 29th Wedding Anniversary

43. A Confession

44. Appreciating The Wife

45. Blessed Are Warm Asses

46. The High Gristle Diet

47. I Don't Tell My Wife I Love Her