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<h2>Since Everything Is All I've Got</h2>
<h3>D. R. James</h3>
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<h3>Lakeside Birdfeeder, First Day</h3>

It should’ve taken only that squawking,<br>
scouting jay to get the word out.<br>
<br>
Framed in a pane, on a perch,<br>
he was posed, a post card, puffed<br>
<br>
against the brittle cold.  His stylish<br>
scarf feathers flicked an impatient face<br>
<br>
and his scruffy topknot busily signaled<br>
who knew who in the neighborhood:<br>
<br>
“Easy Supreme and Sunflower Mélange<br>
swinging free off this deck!” See, he’d need<br>
<br>
some wirier guys to stir it up, to urge<br>
the tiny silo to flowing so he could<br>
<br>
swoop in, scoop out the run-off: “Anyone<br>
game enough to give it a go?”  But, no.<br>
<br>
And now, not a single soul for supper.<br>
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These poems have it all--birds, solipsism, bat shit! How grateful we should be that 
contemporary free verse can make us laugh, wince, and shrug, all at the same time. 
D. R. James picks his poems like battles. He knows which ones he can win.
--Rhoda Janzen,<br>
author of <i>Mennonite in a Little Black Dress</i> and <i>Babel’s Stair</i><br>
<br>
In this fine collection, D. R. James holds consciousness like an egg to candlelight 
and faithfully records its stirrings. Yet this is contemplation tempered by levity, 
and his delight in language keeps me muddling over poem after poem. Whether for the 
lushness of “oil-rosy puddles/in rutted gravel” or the “cognitive befuddlement” of 
love, I’m glad to pull up a deck chair and contemplate birds, sunrises, sunsets, 
and the constant reinventions of the self.
--Jackie Bartley,<br>
author of <i>Ordinary Time</i> and <i>Bloodroot</i><br>
<br>
This is D. R. James’s book of wonders. It brims with the hard-earned wonder that comes 
through love and loss, and through his assay of the mysteries of the heart, the psyche, 
or the soul. In the spirit of Thoreau, these poems plumb the depths of experience, 
probing as far as language and feeling will allow. Distrustful of sham or self-delusion, 
James is nonetheless hopeful and in search of what is authentic, reliable, and real at 
the center, something that literally reminds us that we are alive. These poems chart 
his journey to those moments when we sense that our lives--in joy and in sorrow--are 
truly here and inescapably now and everything is all we have.
--Fred Marchant,<br>
author of <i>The Looking House</i> and <i>Full Moon Boat</i><br>
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D. R. James lives in Holland, Michigan, where he has been teaching writing and literature 
at Hope College for 25 years. His poems have appeared in various magazines and three 
chapbooks. He is married to social worker Suzy Doyle, and between them they have six grown 
children.
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