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a collection of poetry

A collection of poems exploring the transient nature of time and memory written by a son giving late life care to his dying mother in the riverside home and neighborhood in which they both grew up.  Wolfe, Faulkner, The Beatles and Sinatra, NASA and the Red Sox, and an ever present river all find their way into thie mosiac of lives both shared and divergent.  

1968 The Age of Reason, by Kerry Zagarella, chronicles the school year of a second grade girl, Katherine, as she excitedly approaches “the age of reason” in the Catholic Church. The backdrop of a dysfunctional family life, Catholic Church abuses, assassinations, and the growing discontent with the Vietnam War, serve to accentuate the profound loss of innocence, for both Katherine and her country. 

"In On Top of Everything... get ready to sneak some beers, climb the town's fuel tank, leaf from a bridge into the river, shoot hoops, talk baseball and the Sox, whoop it up in cars, and suffer the trances, dreams and fantasies of love. 

Richard Martin