It’s hard to be a poet
in a dull town
with a name like Witch’s Teat, Maine
or Empty Plain, Texas.
Where small minds
look over their own shoulders
and yours.
Or in a city full
of empty bottles
and broken promises.
In a desert spot
where nothing grows
save mean sand and a lizard
which would be the name
of a pub, Mean Sand & A Lizard
if only England
had a desert.
A pub where a poet could create
his uni-
verse.
John Robert McFarland
My novel, VETS, will be published by Black Opal Books in
late 2014 or early 2015.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, A TWEET REPEAT: I have a
sweat-shirt that says “Eschew Obfuscation.” I don’t wear it in public because
if I do, I have to explain it… and people still don’t get it.
I tweet as yooper1721.
A RANDOM BOOK REVIEW: Donna Tartt, THE GOLDFINCH A really long book that is worth the effort. It
should have won a Pulitzer. Oh, it did
I also write Christ in Winter: Reflections on Faith from
a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter. http://christinwinter.blogspot.com/
MY OTHER BOOKS:
NOW THAT I HAVE
CANCER I AM WHOLE: Reflections on Life and Healing for Cancer Patients and
Those Who Love Them [AndrewsMcMeel & HarperAudio, with Czech and
Japanese translations] Paul K. Hamilton, MD, the co-founder of CanSurmount,
called it “The best book for cancer patients, by a cancer patient, ever.”
AN ORDINARY MAN
[HarperPaperbacks] Randall MacLane just wanted to be an ordinary man. But sent
with a message for Custer, he became a drifting lawman with a knack for
killing, and a deep well of loneliness. Then a twist of fate brought him full
circle…
THE STRANGE
CALLING: Stories of Ministry [Smyth&Helwys] I didn’t want to be a
preacher, but I made a deal with God to save my sister’s life. Was that really
a “call,” though? I said, “I’ll try t for 50 years, and if I still don’t know,
I’ll do something else.” These are stories of what happened in those years of
questioning the call.
WHEN FATHER RODE THE MAIL and Other Stories of Christmas
[lulu.com] ISBN 978-1-300-38566-0
If you like baseball poetry, take a look at “Frosty &
the Babe” http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/frosty_and_the_babe.shtml