I am a Poet. I am an Artist. A Storyteller ... I am sixty-three years old. And I have Parkinson's. This small collection of poems is one of the ways I have come to terms with my disease. Watercolor sketches and photographs are another way of addressing the issue. As is donating a portion of the monies this book garners to Parkinson's research.

This is my story. These poems are my poems. Parkinson's Disease - at least as it describes itself here - is my disease ... I am living with it. I am living with it well, I think. I like to think. I am. At any rate. And I am the one dying with it. I address this ... issue ... with poetry; that's the way my mind functions. I address my Parkinson's by taking photographs, and by sitting up at 3:40 in the morning(s) - currently - to draw pictures ... rough sketches with pencil, and pen, and watercolors - My tremors limit the time I can spend on this. My imagination - my writing and drawing and...