Mona Gould

“ Half-somnolent in the cloud of cigarette smoke,
Are seen lounging at precarious angles
Against the nearest tobacconist's windows.
Teen-age boys and girls link arms, and
Roller-skate on the paved streets,
Shoulders touching ”

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“ Has to "stay put" for a while, yet ...
Oh, it takes quite a while,
This business of making a man
Makeshift-whole, again!
(Wonderful how a guy can pick up a book
in his teeth —
Smoke a cigarette, even — with a little help!) ”

“ Acknowledgment is made to Saturday Night, Gossip, Chatelaine, Canadian Poetry Magazine, Canadian Home Journal and The Montrealer, in whose pages many of these poems have appeared.
Contents
I Run With the Fox
Memory Sharp
Gift Shop Window
Sire
Communion
Loud Silence
He Will Not Go Unremembered
Bagpipes Skirl in Heaven
How'd Ya Do!
Big Day
Prayer, In a Hospital
So Fair a Season
Spring Comes to a Small Town
For a Brown Dog
Right out of Pickwick
Man is a Lonely One
This Bitter Brew
It Was Tall in the Forest
Child ... ”