Fire On The River

 SUNDAY AFTERNOON 
 Fire On The River 
  Personal Stories  

(Boarding school: Phillips Exeter Academy, Winter 1961, age 16)
Text, editing, design & research by Rick Doble. All images are from commons.wikimedia.org.

 Always angry 

 my close friend 

 lights a fire 

 with green pine boughs 

 in snow 

 on the frozen river 

 In twilight 

 the red blaze crackles 

 melts virgin powder 

 below the dark blue sky -- 

 for a 
 moment 

 we are free from school 

Anger: the one note emotion By Rick Doble

 LET ME GIVE YOU 

 A PIECE OF MY MIND 

Text by Rick Doble. All images are from commons.wikimedia.org unless otherwise noted.

 Anger 

 while a true emotion 

 is the easiest 

 and often the only one 

 for men afraid 

 of something 
 deeper 

The Emotions of Men and Women By Rick Doble

  FEELINGS  

Text by Rick Doble. All images are from commons.wikimedia.org unless otherwise noted.

 I never met a man 

 who understood 
 his emotions 

 I never met a woman 

 who did not take 
 her feelings 

 too far 

Greek Tragedy by Rick Doble

 GREEK TRAGEDY 

 Sometimes 

 like Oedipus 

 we must search 

 Yet at the end 

 wish 
 we had 

 never known 

Text by Rick Doble. All images are from commons.wikimedia.org unless otherwise noted.