Selections from the author’s first volume of poetry, composed from 1970-1973 in Boston and the South Shore of Massachusetts; Nova Scotia and Western Ontario, Canada; Mountain View and Santa Clara, California; the Lama Foundation above Taos, New Mexico; and finally Lanikai, Kailua on Oahu island, Hawaii, where it was self-published in 1973. While the author was at Northeastern University, “Planter’s Hymn” in this volume was selected for the Annual Anthology of College Poetry (Los Angeles: National Poetry Press).