Finite
Red Ochre Press
by gayla m. mills
Table of Contents
1. The Buffet
2. Girls in Their Summer Dresses
3. Puppy Camera
4. Deer Hoof
5. The Fireplace
6. Summer Cooking
7. Gardner
8. The Bouquet
9. Sandwiches
10. Rugelach
11. Inheritance
12. Kneed
13. Dead Bodies
14. Snapshot or Video
15. January
16. Phyllis
17. Being Whole
18. The Immortal Years
19. Practice
20. Falling
1. The Buffet
2. Girls in Their Summer Dresses
3. Puppy Camera
4. Deer Hoof
5. The Fireplace
6. Summer Cooking
7. Gardner
8. The Bouquet
9. Sandwiches
10. Rugelach
11. Inheritance
12. Kneed
13. Dead Bodies
14. Snapshot or Video
15. January
16. Phyllis
17. Being Whole
18. The Immortal Years
19. Practice
20. Falling
Finite was the winner of the RED OCHRE LiT Chapbook Contest, 2011. Printing: April 2012
Acknowledgements
I am indebted to all my writer friends in Richmond and at Nimrod for their feedback and support, but in particular Katherine DiPasqua, Ann Archer, Charlotte Morgan, Foust, Carol Obrochta, and Terry Dolson. Liz Sheehan has been an early and steady source of encouragement, and her feedback on this manuscript gave me the motivation to complete it. I’m grateful to all my friends and family for so deeply enriching my life and making such a collection possible, and to my husband Gene for all of the above and so much more.
Lastly, I want to thank RED OCHRE LiT and Mimi Ferebee for accepting my first literary essay, The Bouquet, and building my confidence to continue.
Acknowledgements
I am indebted to all my writer friends in Richmond and at Nimrod for their feedback and support, but in particular Katherine DiPasqua, Ann Archer, Charlotte Morgan, Foust, Carol Obrochta, and Terry Dolson. Liz Sheehan has been an early and steady source of encouragement, and her feedback on this manuscript gave me the motivation to complete it. I’m grateful to all my friends and family for so deeply enriching my life and making such a collection possible, and to my husband Gene for all of the above and so much more.
Lastly, I want to thank RED OCHRE LiT and Mimi Ferebee for accepting my first literary essay, The Bouquet, and building my confidence to continue.