I Love You, Goodbye

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Published by Owl Press, 2017. 113 pages. "When I published a collection of my poetry, Passing through, I thought I had finished writing poems. I had cancer, and two different chemo cocktails had slowed the spread of harmful cells but had not been successful at killing them off. When my oncologist found a newly discovered drug which stimulated my own immune system to go after the offending cells and gobble them up, I got my life back, at least for a time. These poems were written over the few months when it looked like the cancer's growth couldn't be controlled and then when it seemed like it could be"–Preface.