You Were There, and other poems - 4. How foolish

Fascinating.  Obviously more going on that we are told in these brief but intriguing lines.

Multiple scenes are evoked in my mind as I read the lines.

20 minutes ago, ReaderPaul said:

Fascinating.  Obviously more going on that we are told in these brief but intriguing lines.

Multiple scenes are evoked in my mind as I read the lines.

Thanks, ReaderPaul. Poem No. 9 marks my leaving of Japan in 1995. I had lived and worked there for four years. This rest of this book will contain poems written up to 1999

These words invoke many interesting scenes in my mind.

Number 8 entranced me. I can only wish I had been as fortunate as the one for whom you wrote this excellent poem. 
 

Number 9 represents a marvelous farewell to a place near and dear to you. 
 

Number 10 makes me  color as I recall my own infatuations. 
 

Thank you for all three of these! 

On 5/23/2024 at 1:36 PM, chris191070 said:

These words invoke many interesting scenes in my mind.

Thanks for reading and commenting, Chris. You're the best!   

On 5/23/2024 at 2:35 PM, Parker Owens said:

Number 8 entranced me. I can only wish I had been as fortunate as the one for whom you wrote this excellent poem. 
 

Number 9 represents a marvelous farewell to a place near and dear to you. 
 

Number 10 makes me  color as I recall my own infatuations. 
 

Thank you for all three of these! 

Thanks, Parker. Just the other day I was thinking about a detail in The Willmore Pizza, namely, that after the adventure in the park, Joshua wrote his phone number on the pizza box still in Nick's car. It's a funny thing people born more recently will never experience firsthand; writing one's number, headed by a name, for another boy in a bar (or anyplace else, lol)