Still Standing By Earl LeClaire

BRUSSELS - Sept. 13, 2015 - PRLog -- ... His work is direct, blunt, angry, tender, and unstintingly honest. These observant poems shout from the page. Tales of injustice and adventure, full of humorous irony, alternate with gentle love poems so exquisitely felt that they break your heart. Earl walks through life wide awake, and we are lucky to be led through his world, feeling the heartbeat of a writer in love with words." -Cathy Larson Sky, musician/poet, author of “Blue egg, my heart” (Finishing Line Press, 2014)

Earl LeClaire, poet and raconteur, has worked at a myriad of jobs including, fisherman, lobsterman, nuclear piping designer, historical researcher, cab driver, and chef. He has been writing poetry, fiction, and non-fiction since 1971. He has published poetry, fiction and food articles in many small press and major magazines in the USA and Europe. Earl was awarded first place in the Aquillrelle Poetry Contest 2 for the poem, “Below the Mayonnaise Factory”. He is the author of two cookbooks, Cove Creek Farm.Org‘s Old Timey Appalachian Good Foods and Game Cookbook and Old Swamper‘s Shellfish and Clambake Cookbook. His book of vignettes, Night Taxi, is currently out of print. His first book of poetry, Below the Mayonnaise Factory, is available through Catawba Press. Earl, 70, lives in the still rugged and beautiful Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina half a mile from the Tennessee Line. Deliverance, he is quick to remind you, was a product of the late James Dickey’s sometimes strange and twisted mind. However, he says, if you hear banjo music, paddle faster.


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When People See You

-for Lisa

When people see you
as a tempestuous ocean
full of storm and fury,
a wave crashing on an unsuspecting shore,
then to recede, to gather again
and storm ashore
once more.
It is what they expect
of a poet.
It is more difficult
when you are but a small,
shadowed, reflecting pond.
If you dare to look in
and let your hand
touch your face
on the surface
you won’t believe
the truth,
and the simplicity of it.

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