The Welcome

Fables for the modern age. 


Part of the National Poetry Series.


David Friedman is a graduate of Cornell University and Columbia University. He lives in New York City.


Contents:

 Whirlwind

 Dreamer

 Flugelhorn

 The Green Bear Shanghaied

 Altimeter

 The Past

 Chef

 Magda

 Heliotrope

 Dishabille

 Ladder

 The Welcome

 Typewriter

 Cricket

 "In the Fullness of Time"

 A Reincarnation

 Missing Person

 Panama

 Pilgrim

 Seasons

 Tomfoolery

 Antelope School

 Shoe

 Time Poem

 Varlet

 Tourniquet

 The Little Pastor

 Back From Exile

 Point of No Return

 Advice

 Bluestocking

 Skydiver

 27 and 1/2

 A Brace of Firearms

 Who I Am

 Three

 Parade

 Mudflats

 Nepenthe

 Coffee

 The Box

 The One True Believer

 A Reunion

 On the Bridge

 Rock

 Born in England

 Bird of Paradise

 A Meeting

 Flight

 Love Poem

 The Key

 Watson

 5

 Shuteye

 A Mystery

 Trust Me

 Statistics

 To Be Part of a House

 Fortuitous

 Strictly Speaking