Dick Gallup's poetry is an image-ladened celebration of the sudden beauty and unanticipated wonders of life and living. -- along with life's inevitable bumps, bruises, and unexpected consequences. Home: We rejoin our hero at the edge of a vast,/impenetrable morass. His feet glitter as fishes/darting in water. His arms are bathed in a milky/light. His hands touch the fronds at the water's/edge. With a gasp we realize that the temperature/stands at 17 degrees.