Contents
Aluah Nature (Part 1)
Prelude (page 1-2), Absorption and Evaporation (1-3), Aluah – Keeper of the Wild (1-4), Aluah’s Light (1-5), Cave Form (1-6), John Denver (1-7), Kiss The Earth and Sky (1-8), Lights Around The Lake (1-9), Nature and Man (1-10), Our ‘Love Affair’ With Nature (1-12), Rabbit Ears and Feet (1-14), Same Sun and Moon (1-15), Small Bite (1-15), Sounds of Country (1-15), Spring (1-17), Spring de la Terre (1-18), Survival – Wilderness and Society (1-18), Truth, Beauty, and Goodness – The Trinity of Nature (1-19), Westward Walk (1-21), Wildness and Conformity (1-22).
Aluah Soldier (Part 2)
Prelude (page 2-2), 4 C’s (2-3), Aberrational Shrapnel (2-4), Aluah Soldier (2-5), Amazing Unspoken (2-6), Before The Dawn (2-7), Boot Soup (2-8), Canonized Military (2-9), Enemy Soldier (2-10), Greatness (2-10), Horror of War (2-11), Keeper of The Wine (2-12), Minute Man (2-12), Not Really Over You (2-13), Oh Captain Oh Captain (2-14), Pretend (2-14), Rain and Rinse (2-15), Remembrance (2-16), Right of Refusal (2-17), Silent Walk of a Veteran (2-18), Soldier Man (2-22), Upside Down (2-23), War Not Understood (2-24), Why Don’t You Write (2-24).
Aluah Stories (Part 3)
Prelude (page 3-2), After School Pinball and Pool (3-3), Auto Auction Day (3-5), Basement Abode (3-7), Blindness (3-8), Cane Side (3-9), Great White Birds (3-11), Hit or Miss (3-20), I Fired My Boss (3-21), I Used To Love Trees (3-22), Letter To Sister (3-24), Lost My Gloves (3-26), My Old Truck (3-28), Old Friends (3-29), Sandbar (3-30), Stone Diary (3-32), Two Little Flies (3-33), Waiting for Dad (3-35), When I Eat (3-37).
Aluah Essays (Part 4)
Prelude (page 4-2), Beauty of Youth (4-3), Broken Spirit (4-5), Disconnection (4-7), Enormous Effort (4-8), Historical Leaders, Everyday Leaders, and the Masses (4-9), In Thinking of Eternity (4-12), Label Land and Boundary Bits (4-16), Not To Feel (4-17), Personality Traits – Awareness and Ownership (4-18), Personality Traits/Gifts/Talents – Given or Derived (4-21), Regularity (4-27), Theories of Core Loneliness (4-30), Too Beautiful Not To Share (4-38).
Aluah Light (Part 5)
Prelude (page 5-2), Along Their Way (5-2), Always (5-2), A New Place To Go (5-3), Aren’ts (5-4), Astray (5-5), Babies and Bullies (5-5), Bad Dog (5-6), Blend A New Day (5-7), Blue Hearts of Mind (5-8), Boats, Cars, and Lips (5-9), Boundary Boy (5-9), Brandless Beauty (5-10), Bucket List (5-10), Catch the Sun (5-11), Cheat’n Woman (5-12), Cheers (5-13), Clean (5-13), Clowns of Love (5-14), Consternation (5-15), Conversation (5-16), Crowd Love (5-17), Crumbs (5-17), Crust of Bread (5-18), Dark Star (5-18), Dear Past (5-18), Eating Tomorrow (5-19), Elephant Tail (5-19), Everyone Born (5-19), Fast or Slow (5-20), Folded Clothes (5-20), Fragile World II (5-21), Get You Down (5-22), Gravel (5-22), Grounds of Conformity (5-23), Grubby Boy (5-23), Heart So Big (5-23), Homeless I (5-24), Homeless II (5-24), Houses, Roads, and Women (5-25), If You Don’t Want Me (5-25), In My Heart (5-26), In Not Coming Back (5-26), Judge (5-27), Jump Into The Sky (5-28), Just To Get Started (5-28), Labelism (5-29), Last Piece of Bread (5-29), Leaving Points (5-30), Little Big Things (5-30), Little Neighbor Friends Who Died (5-31), Lost Another Friend (5-31), Lov’n Man (5-31), Mark on Life (5-32), Melted Butter (5-33), Memory Pain (5-33), Miss Your Way (5-34), Mooch Go Round (5-35), More To Unseal (5-36), Mountain Tops (5-36), No Home (5-37), No Matter (5-38), Not Done With Me Yet (5-38), On Leaving (5-38), One Day (5-39), One Minute (5-39), Paths We Cross (5-40), People Who Live (5-40), Pick Up Sticks (5-41), Porsche and Chinaware (5-41),
Pound of Replacement (5-42), Price of Bread (5-42), See Them (5-43), Smallest Kiss (5-43), Soft Fingers (5-44), So Good To Me (5-45), Sold My Heart (5-45), Something Beautiful (5-46), Staring At the Jukebox (5-46), Stupidity (5-47), Stupid Package (5-49), Talk Yourself Into It (5-49), Tangled Feet (5-50), Telescope (5-50), Tension (5-51), The More I Think (5-52), Things I Cook (5-52), Things We Don’t See (5-53), To Be Here (5-53), Too Late Now (5-54), Trails (5-54), Trails of My Eyes (5-55), Two Walks (5-56), Waking Up At 1:30 A.M. (5-56), Walk To Nowhere (5-56), Wrinkled Lips (5-57), Zeal (5-57).
Aluah Others (Part 6)
Prelude (page 6-2), Baby Sitting Again (6-3), Bag of Tomorrow (6-4), Blame (6-4), Broken Hair Brush (6-5), Bury Me (6-6), Can’t Feel Your Pain (6-7), Conquered Power (6-7), Distance (6-8), End of Anything (6-8), Expectations (6-9), Friend and Mother (6-9), Gifts (6-10), Good Death (6-11), Hungry Souls
(6-11), Hurt Is Always There (6-12), Inflictions (6-13), In Mind (6-13), Meanness and Kindness (6-14), Mothers To Mothers (6-15), Not Your Obligation (6-16), Obliviousness (6-16), Old Trash (6-17), On Becoming Friends (6-18), Pain Away (6-18), Point Out Our Differences (6-19), Pride of Our Generation (6-19), Pull Trump (6-20), Rose Mother (6-21), Seeing Yourself in Others (6-23), Skin of Me (6-23), Strong-Willed (6-23), Talking Lips (6-24), Teach Me A Lesson (6-25), To All My Friends (6-25), To Track A Ghost (6-26), Walls (6-27), Walls To See (6-27), Way You Live (6-27).
Aluah Self (Part 7)
Prelude (page 7-2), Ache of Separation (7-3), Addition of Loneliness (7-4), All Over Again (7-5), Alone Again (7-5), Battle in Me (7-6), Braised Unknown (7-7), Camouflaged (7-7), Cocoon of Me (7-8), Comfortable Place (7-8), Complete (7-9), Compression (7-9), Destruction (7-10), Disappointment (7-10), Drain of My Addiction (7-11), Excuses (7-11), Frailties (7-13), Hardest To See (7-13), Heart Apart O’ Me (7-14), Holding Onto Nowhere (7-15), Hurt (7-16), Ideas in My Head (7-16), Labels of Deflection (7-16), Meet Myself (7-17), Mirrors (7-17), Monster (7-18), My Addiction (7-19), My Bustedness (7-20), My Coldest Days (7-20), Narcissism and Perfectionism (7-21), Nets of Life (7-30), Nothing (7-30), Nothing Left To Give (7-31), Not Meant To Be (7-31), Now I See (7-31), Numb and Very Numb (7-32), On Becoming A Man (7-33), Pain That Walks (7-34), Pathetic (7-34), Perfectly (7-35), Pretender (7-35), Prisons (7-36), Protecting Myself (7-37), Putting Up With Myself (7-38), Rekindle (7-39), Same Shovel (7-40), Scars of Displacement (7-41), Scratching Pits (7-42), Screaming Voice (7-43), Since I Was A Boy (7-43), Slow Love (7-44), Slump (7-44), Smitten (7-45), Soak and Sit (7-46), Stuff (7-46), Stump (4-48), Survival Days (7-49), Things I Don’t Fix (7-50), What Comes Out (7-50), What’s Left (7-50), When I Was Young (7-51), Where I Clean (7-52), Where Should I Go Now (7-52), Wish I Could (7-53).
Biography (Part 8) (page 8-1)
Index (Part 9) (page 9-1)
Prelude (page 1-2), Absorption and Evaporation (1-3), Aluah – Keeper of the Wild (1-4), Aluah’s Light (1-5), Cave Form (1-6), John Denver (1-7), Kiss The Earth and Sky (1-8), Lights Around The Lake (1-9), Nature and Man (1-10), Our ‘Love Affair’ With Nature (1-12), Rabbit Ears and Feet (1-14), Same Sun and Moon (1-15), Small Bite (1-15), Sounds of Country (1-15), Spring (1-17), Spring de la Terre (1-18), Survival – Wilderness and Society (1-18), Truth, Beauty, and Goodness – The Trinity of Nature (1-19), Westward Walk (1-21), Wildness and Conformity (1-22).
Aluah Soldier (Part 2)
Prelude (page 2-2), 4 C’s (2-3), Aberrational Shrapnel (2-4), Aluah Soldier (2-5), Amazing Unspoken (2-6), Before The Dawn (2-7), Boot Soup (2-8), Canonized Military (2-9), Enemy Soldier (2-10), Greatness (2-10), Horror of War (2-11), Keeper of The Wine (2-12), Minute Man (2-12), Not Really Over You (2-13), Oh Captain Oh Captain (2-14), Pretend (2-14), Rain and Rinse (2-15), Remembrance (2-16), Right of Refusal (2-17), Silent Walk of a Veteran (2-18), Soldier Man (2-22), Upside Down (2-23), War Not Understood (2-24), Why Don’t You Write (2-24).
Aluah Stories (Part 3)
Prelude (page 3-2), After School Pinball and Pool (3-3), Auto Auction Day (3-5), Basement Abode (3-7), Blindness (3-8), Cane Side (3-9), Great White Birds (3-11), Hit or Miss (3-20), I Fired My Boss (3-21), I Used To Love Trees (3-22), Letter To Sister (3-24), Lost My Gloves (3-26), My Old Truck (3-28), Old Friends (3-29), Sandbar (3-30), Stone Diary (3-32), Two Little Flies (3-33), Waiting for Dad (3-35), When I Eat (3-37).
Aluah Essays (Part 4)
Prelude (page 4-2), Beauty of Youth (4-3), Broken Spirit (4-5), Disconnection (4-7), Enormous Effort (4-8), Historical Leaders, Everyday Leaders, and the Masses (4-9), In Thinking of Eternity (4-12), Label Land and Boundary Bits (4-16), Not To Feel (4-17), Personality Traits – Awareness and Ownership (4-18), Personality Traits/Gifts/Talents – Given or Derived (4-21), Regularity (4-27), Theories of Core Loneliness (4-30), Too Beautiful Not To Share (4-38).
Aluah Light (Part 5)
Prelude (page 5-2), Along Their Way (5-2), Always (5-2), A New Place To Go (5-3), Aren’ts (5-4), Astray (5-5), Babies and Bullies (5-5), Bad Dog (5-6), Blend A New Day (5-7), Blue Hearts of Mind (5-8), Boats, Cars, and Lips (5-9), Boundary Boy (5-9), Brandless Beauty (5-10), Bucket List (5-10), Catch the Sun (5-11), Cheat’n Woman (5-12), Cheers (5-13), Clean (5-13), Clowns of Love (5-14), Consternation (5-15), Conversation (5-16), Crowd Love (5-17), Crumbs (5-17), Crust of Bread (5-18), Dark Star (5-18), Dear Past (5-18), Eating Tomorrow (5-19), Elephant Tail (5-19), Everyone Born (5-19), Fast or Slow (5-20), Folded Clothes (5-20), Fragile World II (5-21), Get You Down (5-22), Gravel (5-22), Grounds of Conformity (5-23), Grubby Boy (5-23), Heart So Big (5-23), Homeless I (5-24), Homeless II (5-24), Houses, Roads, and Women (5-25), If You Don’t Want Me (5-25), In My Heart (5-26), In Not Coming Back (5-26), Judge (5-27), Jump Into The Sky (5-28), Just To Get Started (5-28), Labelism (5-29), Last Piece of Bread (5-29), Leaving Points (5-30), Little Big Things (5-30), Little Neighbor Friends Who Died (5-31), Lost Another Friend (5-31), Lov’n Man (5-31), Mark on Life (5-32), Melted Butter (5-33), Memory Pain (5-33), Miss Your Way (5-34), Mooch Go Round (5-35), More To Unseal (5-36), Mountain Tops (5-36), No Home (5-37), No Matter (5-38), Not Done With Me Yet (5-38), On Leaving (5-38), One Day (5-39), One Minute (5-39), Paths We Cross (5-40), People Who Live (5-40), Pick Up Sticks (5-41), Porsche and Chinaware (5-41),
Pound of Replacement (5-42), Price of Bread (5-42), See Them (5-43), Smallest Kiss (5-43), Soft Fingers (5-44), So Good To Me (5-45), Sold My Heart (5-45), Something Beautiful (5-46), Staring At the Jukebox (5-46), Stupidity (5-47), Stupid Package (5-49), Talk Yourself Into It (5-49), Tangled Feet (5-50), Telescope (5-50), Tension (5-51), The More I Think (5-52), Things I Cook (5-52), Things We Don’t See (5-53), To Be Here (5-53), Too Late Now (5-54), Trails (5-54), Trails of My Eyes (5-55), Two Walks (5-56), Waking Up At 1:30 A.M. (5-56), Walk To Nowhere (5-56), Wrinkled Lips (5-57), Zeal (5-57).
Aluah Others (Part 6)
Prelude (page 6-2), Baby Sitting Again (6-3), Bag of Tomorrow (6-4), Blame (6-4), Broken Hair Brush (6-5), Bury Me (6-6), Can’t Feel Your Pain (6-7), Conquered Power (6-7), Distance (6-8), End of Anything (6-8), Expectations (6-9), Friend and Mother (6-9), Gifts (6-10), Good Death (6-11), Hungry Souls
(6-11), Hurt Is Always There (6-12), Inflictions (6-13), In Mind (6-13), Meanness and Kindness (6-14), Mothers To Mothers (6-15), Not Your Obligation (6-16), Obliviousness (6-16), Old Trash (6-17), On Becoming Friends (6-18), Pain Away (6-18), Point Out Our Differences (6-19), Pride of Our Generation (6-19), Pull Trump (6-20), Rose Mother (6-21), Seeing Yourself in Others (6-23), Skin of Me (6-23), Strong-Willed (6-23), Talking Lips (6-24), Teach Me A Lesson (6-25), To All My Friends (6-25), To Track A Ghost (6-26), Walls (6-27), Walls To See (6-27), Way You Live (6-27).
Aluah Self (Part 7)
Prelude (page 7-2), Ache of Separation (7-3), Addition of Loneliness (7-4), All Over Again (7-5), Alone Again (7-5), Battle in Me (7-6), Braised Unknown (7-7), Camouflaged (7-7), Cocoon of Me (7-8), Comfortable Place (7-8), Complete (7-9), Compression (7-9), Destruction (7-10), Disappointment (7-10), Drain of My Addiction (7-11), Excuses (7-11), Frailties (7-13), Hardest To See (7-13), Heart Apart O’ Me (7-14), Holding Onto Nowhere (7-15), Hurt (7-16), Ideas in My Head (7-16), Labels of Deflection (7-16), Meet Myself (7-17), Mirrors (7-17), Monster (7-18), My Addiction (7-19), My Bustedness (7-20), My Coldest Days (7-20), Narcissism and Perfectionism (7-21), Nets of Life (7-30), Nothing (7-30), Nothing Left To Give (7-31), Not Meant To Be (7-31), Now I See (7-31), Numb and Very Numb (7-32), On Becoming A Man (7-33), Pain That Walks (7-34), Pathetic (7-34), Perfectly (7-35), Pretender (7-35), Prisons (7-36), Protecting Myself (7-37), Putting Up With Myself (7-38), Rekindle (7-39), Same Shovel (7-40), Scars of Displacement (7-41), Scratching Pits (7-42), Screaming Voice (7-43), Since I Was A Boy (7-43), Slow Love (7-44), Slump (7-44), Smitten (7-45), Soak and Sit (7-46), Stuff (7-46), Stump (4-48), Survival Days (7-49), Things I Don’t Fix (7-50), What Comes Out (7-50), What’s Left (7-50), When I Was Young (7-51), Where I Clean (7-52), Where Should I Go Now (7-52), Wish I Could (7-53).
Biography (Part 8) (page 8-1)
Index (Part 9) (page 9-1)