Product Description
"Poetry is often an exercise in surprises. While the poet may begin with a thought, an image, or a vision, where that leads may surprise, even as the poet moves among the once familiar or the unfamiliar, whether anticipating or discovering for the first time or once again, like coming home after a long or short absence, as in ""Surprise in Absentia"":

Everything in order scanned
So we in usual procession
Re-entered our daily routine
As though we were never away.
Yet we had been, and glad for it
Only if to know something
Awaited us on our coming back
Unexpected because it was
Good and waiting for us. "