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how often are our lives defined by catastrophic breaks with the past? in fact everyone who breathes from a deep crevasse in the crust has at least once hit the wall in mid-stroke with such force that the impact prevailed over all attempts to right the course. each of us is humpty dumpty on a wall, attended by shrinks and howling ads for products that promise relief, unless of course you're diabetic, pregnant or stricken with a broken heart.and that's why I want to talk about "Gray House By Cold Mountain" by George Thomas. George is a poet & novelist going back to the Fifties. I met him in a writing program in the Northwest in the mid-Seventies. with America's pulling out of Vietnam, our dreams loomed large. we married young women(both for the 2nd time) and had babies. we took teaching jobs and wrote in the basement of our daily schedules while submitting poems to tiny journals that paid in copies.years later George called to report his marriage ended and his current job emptying bedpans at a nursing home. he'd moved his few things to a gray house on the edge of town and slept on a mattress in the middle of the room. on fridays he saw his therapist.I believe it was during that winter & spring that he wrote the poems that make up "Gray House." we spoke on the phone during that period. he said he was writing from the point of view of a dirty old man and the results were delicious. such are the seasons that lead us down hallways to the bedrooms of our childhood, where we meet our deepest self and propose marriage. it is that power that drives these poems--from darkness to light, from wry comedy to blissful acceptance. the poet is my friend, and I'm proud of his surviving that period, and welcome his record of it. I think you'll recognize the winter in your own heart inside these poems.