KNOCK KNOCK WHO IS IT MAILMAN just ducky

             
                                        
                                          
                                       
                                        
                                              
                                                 
I'M IN THE BATHROOM.  THAT'S OKAY.                 
                                       
Not really.  So hurriedly I reconstruct my  
necessaries and awkwardly make my way to    
the door.  He extends to me a handful of   
somewhat soggy mail which I use two hands 
to grasp while I think thank you--do not   
recall if I actually said it.              
                                           
                                              
Some background:  After waking at AM 7:06          
and hearing moderately heavy rain, and in   
the distance two thunderings, I stayed up.
The mail boxes here are deep but otherwise   
small, and he had two items that were not  
easy to bend.  It was after PM 2 when he  
arrived and these days I usually need to   
visit the bathroom every -/+ three hours.
Still, it baffles and annoys me that I am  
often interrupted at moments when I least 
need to be.                                   
                                           
The two books I received today:              
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Studia Mystica  Poetry and Mysticism
Volume IX, Number 4  Winter 1986            
(four poems I wrote are in it)                
-- It was through the kindness of                
Professor Robert Boenig at TAMU          
that I was able to secure a copy. --    
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Another Song I Know -- short poems
by William Michaelian.  
He and I and Gary B. Fitzgerald
are engaged in a 3-way book exchange.   
Hopefully I will be able to send     
a copy of my book to each of them         
this coming week.                       
                                         
Two books I received earlier this month
from the Academy of American Poets:       
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the true keeps calm biding its story
by Rusty Morrison                          
Winner of the 2008 James Laughlin Award
of the Academy of American Poets
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American Poet -- The Journal of  
the Academy of American Poets          
Volume 36  Spring 2009                      
                                          
                                             
                                       
                                           
                                           
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