"The mind has a dumb sense of vast loss–that is all. It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather the details and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss." ~ Mark Twain

When I look back at what I’ve written the last thirty years of my life, I feel an overwhelming sense of loss: the loss of my youth, past loves, and so many words that died in thought, that were never written. This book is a collection of poems and writings from 1976 through 2005, capturing the passage of time, school through marriage and parenthood through middle age. It is dedicated to my brother, Kenny, who lived for thirteen years and died after a car accident in July, 1982. The loss of a brother as well as grandparents, aunts and uncles, a first girlfriend and a cousin, have shaded my life. As I assembled this book, I began to waken from a deep malaise, haunted with love, wonder, and gratitude for the lost and the living, my wife and children, family and friends. What I hope to leave is a prayer that my children and my words will Outlive Me.

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~ Arnie Goldman