Wide and Wavy Out of Salamanca: Sort of True Essays

A poet is a noticer. Ira Joe Fisher is a poet and he notices. A song. A dog. A ride on atrain (and how the track rumbles beneath your seat). Rubbish at the curb. Our world is afascinating place and Fisher is fascinated by it. A blank sheet of paper begs for squiggles of ink.To note and to make sense of this world. To discover delight and laughing. The hazy past. Theconfounding present. A baseball. Falling snow. Crackling autumn. Hitchhiking. Spongy loamunderfoot in a shady wood. A frog. A song and Christmas and the blessing of friendship. Theseessays rise from a life begun in a charming little valley ? a life that has traveled the world andholds dear what is remembered. What is noticed. Ira Joe Fisher invites you into these essays.Sit. Slow. Savor. Spend time with a friend in a place you just might remember.