A fantasy set in an alternate world. A world without computers, mobile phones, laptops, areoplanes, CDs, guns...

A collection of poems, both the doomy and the daft, the whimsical and the weird.

Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, c1988.

The story is about a young child, Serena wandering the countryside with her father. So poor that sometimes she had to go around in barefoot. Eventually they were befriended by a kind old shop owner who gave them an old house on the beach. There they found contentment but Serena always longed to find out about her past. Mighty Ocean where have you been what wonderous things have you seen that sun kissed land with beaches white the frozen shores no sun did light Such change of mood Such depth untold what many stories could unfold We remember not its angry roar white tipped spray rising high but listen very quietly as it reaches the shore it whispering gently after its mighty journey Marie Campbell

Foreword by Alan Ball “Elegant, respectful and refreshingly funny.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts with a signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions offers a wry and compassionate selection from Lynch’s four previous collections of nonfiction, along with new essays shaped by the press of the author’s own mortality.