Age Looking Back at Its Youth

By John M. Ridland

We had so little, yet we had so much:

Thunder and lightning at the lightest touch.

Source: Poetry (February 2011)

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John Ridland was born in London and grew up in California. He earned his PhD from Claremont Graduate School and has published numerous books and chapbooks, including Odes on Violence (1969), In the Shadowless Light (1978), Palms: Six ballads (1993), Poems of the American West...

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