[Mary Meriam]

Thanks, Dally (I started typing Dinkum and Cally at once). It's true, the IthacaLit poem was written over many years. What a thrill it was to arrive at last ("a rare excitement / stirs your spirit and your body.")

Thanks, Rickster. Both these strange poems will be in my next book, My Girl's Green Jacket. But the book after that, the one I'm working on now, is even stranger and stranger.

[Rick Mullin]

You are passing strange.
RM