Hesitations

Hesitations. Pauses, momentary intersections in the flow of time, dominate Wayne Lanter's well-balanced collection of poems. "A way of recording human frailty and perseverance in face of existence," Lanter admits - "to look at the moment, to look back, and narrate what we have experienced that might encourage and instruct us for tomorrow." Hesitations includes the reflections and observations of poets, baseball players, Marines, clergy, old men and women, lovers,