Settled into my easy chair in the morning to read Flabbergast Malarkey. What fun! You should be our poet laureate. Loved all the poems, especially Puppet Show and Free Time and phrases like “the gods applauded with beams of sunlight.” Loved all the bananas, the jumping beans, the grass dragons and remembering taking you to the barbershop where you read comics and got a sucker. Your poems are like taking a vacation backwards with all of that magnetic something that pulls you toward love. You write superior poetry from the forest of sublime memories, and you are very funny. A cannonball hits a water tower and lands on a gas furnace where a young Dorothy snuggles into the warmth smoking her cigs, and laughing loudly and hoarsely with pride and delight. Fantastic! You are all ! –Nort
Rustin Larson 