Larry D. Griffin

Larry D. Griffin was born, reared, and educated in Oklahoma. He lived for

sixteen years in the deserts of West Texas. Presently serves as Professor

of English and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Dyersburg State Community College,

Dyersburg, Tennessee. Books of poetry include New Fires (Full Count, 1982),

The Blue Water Tower (Poetry Around, 1984), and Airspace (Slough Press, 1989).

Larry can be reached at lgriffin@dscc.cc.tn.us.

Carl

Carl argues all sorts of excuses, end of the semester, involvement in job

search, heat of the West Texas Desert as to why he had not contacted Adah

sooner. More than anything else, he was overwhelmed by the memory of her

body. Carl had moved with his wife and son to West Texas. He taught

school, and he divorced his wife who then moved to East Texas, Louisiana,

and then Michigan--all places where he would spend a great deal of time

visiting his son over the years. In the meantime Carl fell in love with a

French woman, who was +62 rated French tennis player, and #7 female downhill

French skier. They carried on in the U.S. and in France for about three

years before Carl finally lost her to her present husband with whom she

now has two children. They are all great friends still, visiting back and

forth. After Carl finished his graduate studies, he married an

Athenian--Athens, Texas, of course. He still teaches, but he got rid of

the Athenian. He traveled to England, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland,

El Salvador, Japan, China, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, Italy, etc.

Carl never thinks of Seattle without thinking Adah. He always knew somehow

that she was out there. When he was in Washington last summer, visiting his

old college friend who runs the Globe Restaurant and Bakery, on Fourteenth

between Pike and Powell, he searched for Adah under all the wrong names.

Larry Griffin