Inner Sword: Poetry and
Prose by James A. Gardner
Lensometer
My father went to work for American Optical
in 1946 after serving in the Pacific theater. In 1970, he
& my four oldest brothers founded Progressive Optical
which was the Ohio Valley's largest wholesale optical lab
for twenty years. I worked around there throughout my
high school & college days, and at one time or
another was also its janitor. Between 1986 and
1989, I was a finish man; tinted or beveled
thousands of lenses; laid out many more with its Lensometer, paying my
own tuition for college.
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These are works in progress, for the
most part, and not final drafts
Nightwatch at the Brown Hotel
Nightwatch at the Brown Hotel
Red Lights in San Francisco
Red Lights in
San Francisco (HTML)
The Happy Genius
(PDF)
Forestry Song
- Movement 1 (PDF)
- Movement 2 (PDF)
- Movement 3 (PDF)
- Movement 4 (PDF)
- Movement 5 (PDF)
- Movement 6 (PDF)
- Movement 7 (PDF)
- Movement 8 (PDF)
- Movement 9 (PDF)
- Movement 10 (PDF)
- Movement 12 (PDF)
- Movement 13 (PDF)
- Movement 14 (PDF)
- Movement 15 (PDF)
- Movement 17 (PDF)
Bodily Poems
- An Atheist Dreams
of an Afterlife
- Advice to
Young Poets (For Twohawks)
- After
Catullus
- Alex at Issus
- Baby Judy
- A Calling
- Counterjumper
- Dividing
Iris
- The Fancy Bar
- Gate
- Horses
- Image Broker,
1985
- Jay's Dinner
- Jonas at Sleep
- Knower too
Soon (early draft)
- Library Card
- Merton's Hill
(Draft)
- The Old Box
- Only
- Oratory (For the
Tone Deaf)
- Pledge of
Allegiance
- Portrait of
David
- Of Teutons and
Gourds
- On Reading of a
Child Arsonist
- One Pleasant
Night in Gold Country
- Readings
from Uncle Walt
- Regards to Bruce
- The Revolution
in Psychology
- Selfish
- Sidenote (Highland
Grounds, 1993)
- Smell of
Beer to One with a Cold
- Steady Soil
- Support for Our
Existence
- I Read a
Terrific Poem
- Three Matchsticks
- Time Heels (Samizdat)
- Triggered Star
- Canto 3,000,001
- Canto 3,000,002
- Chatlog with
Charlie
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