Love and Lethargy: stories and poems is an alternating collection that is easy to flip through for a spontaneous choice. Poems are minimalist but sometimes richly detailed. Stories are both short and long, including the longest at the end that is the beginning of something new. Young adulthood to middle age and parenthoodthis is a very rich ensemble that covers many settings and themes. Yet love is everywhere, with the emotional and physical fatigue that comes with itlove for people, car, bridge, river, kids, wife, the coast, neighbors, view out a window, etc. The language is absolutely original and super-duper smooththe scenes are utterly convincing.