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-- Click Here to select a Poem -- Notes on a New Reformation Yesterday's Humans Prelude So Where Are The Poems? I Am The Wind Sunflower Generations The Sadder Side of Things How To Talk To Trees Feast Of The Common Table Introduction to The Common Table Cake and Ice Cream America's Civic Religion For My Buddy Who Died of AIDS Road Kill Love Images of Childhood Don't Fry Bacon Naked A Brief History Of English The Bible and Same Gender Marriage Standing On The corner Addiction Central Illinois Robust Democracy I Pulled The Plug Lent 2003 Breakfast at the Moon Cafe "G" "O" "D" Catholic Boys My Father's Garden Let Us Walk Quietly... The Daily Prayer Rain Lesson November Dawn The Feast of the Blessed Virgin The Cosmic Knife The Great American Southwest Dancing With Jack The Waiter When I Was Small Waterloo Balboa Park Haiku Tequila Jesus This Moment Sister Lazarus American Haiku Hello and Welcome to Curran Journal...the site for my book HOLDING HANDS WITH REALITY, POETRY AND PROSE BY CURRAN JEFFERY New work is appearing on this site which is not in the original 2006 edition, including a revised "America's Civic Religion." Birth, life, death, the passing of generations, addictions, religion, faith, sex, politics, war, jobs. hurricanes, technology, reality--all of these things touch our lives and are a part of who we are. CURRAN JOURNAL records poetry and prose spanning 50 years of observing, participating and living in these realities. "Holding Hands with Reality," a collection from this work, has been published by Author House. 2006. For more information on this book and the opportunity to purchase, please click below or order from Amazon.com or Barnes And Noble. [ Click Here ] Holding Hands with Reality : Poetry and Prose poetrypoem.com/curran blogbud.com/curran storypen.com/curran WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF ON-LINE PUBLISHING-- The entire text of HHWR is posted on this site so you don't even have to buy the book. If you enjoyed and would like to compensate the poet, (poets live not by metaphor alone) contributions in any amount can be made through Pay-Pal by clicking on "make a donation." All contributions through this site will be used to cover the costs of publishing my next two manuscripts: A series of essays taking a "progressive" look at world religion (click on "blogbud" above) and a universalist communion service (click on "storypen" above.) Many, many thanks... I invite you to visit my other sites At the above links-- Read and enjoy... Thanks for visiting