INSIDE OUT: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LARRY L. MEYER

Only poetry have I, a life-long slacker, felt compelled to write.  In it, and only it, do I learn who I am or wish to be.

                                                                        LLM

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: CHILDREN

THE SOFTNESS OF MY SON (TO ERIC)

ALL MY SONS

GEMINI

POEM FOR KARL

CHRISTMAS '85, WITH KURT

MOLLY, DEAR

FIRST CONTACT WITH MADELEINE

CONFIRMATION DAY

LEARNING ABOUT GIRLS (WITH MADELEINE)

WITH FRANZ IN SURF CITY

OLD MAN, YOUNG SON

MY NEUTERING NOTED, 1993