One Story Leads to Another . . .

On the Flyleaf of
Above the River

We dance clumsily with our words

while our pet dog controls the rhythm

and the world does not know

how to control him, nor release us

from its festival arms.

We make do with our disregarded rhythms

for we are carried away by our spirited feet

into cumulous clouds because we have begun

to sing with exhilarated voices that know nothing

about containment nor pitch. 

Picture of Herbert Woodward Martin

Herbert Woodward Martin

Herbert Woodward Martin began his studies at the University of Toledo. He continued them at SUNY at Buffalo, then at Middlebury College, and finished at Carnegie Mellon University. Martin began teaching at the University of Dayton in the fall of 1970, and has spent the bulk of his career there. The exceptions occurred in 1973, when he served as a distinguished visiting professor at Central Michigan University, and in 1990, when he was a Fulbright Scholar in Hungary.
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