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These poems stem from observations and\/or the perspectives of artists and other workers, even nomadic animals in an Alaskan desert working towards a prize, wherein each subject needs and wants something as simple as a elderberries, as complex as empathy, respect, integrity, or friendship, and is doing the best they can with what they have to achieve or bestow it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection I, Sketches Near and Far. Through regional portrait poems spanning the U.S. and our neighbors to the north and south, as well as parts of the U.K. and Asia, honest and objective yet personal poems are centered on the aforementioned topics and themes and on some of the people, places, animals, issues, and flavors, of various regions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection I, Drawing from Inspiration. Here contemplative portraits offer an invitation to look and touch, to draw and be drawn from way beneath and beyond the surface of things. 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