Getting a Good Read

By P. V. LeForge and John Pekins

Copyright 2011 P. V. LeForge and John Pekins

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Section 1: The Front Nine
Surprise (P. V. LeForge)
Poet (John Pekins)
In Quest of the Perfect Tee (P. V. LeForge)
Fences (John Pekins)
Loneliness (P. V. LeForge)
“Bag’s Groove” (John Pekins
Golf in the Ruins (P. V. LeForge)
The Science of Golf (P. V. LeForge)
Stuck (John Pekins)
Section 2: The Back Nine
Not Golfing, but Camping with the Trail Scouts (John Pekins)
Slow Burn (P. V. LeForge)
Number 11 (John Pekins)
The Mathematics of Number 12 (John Pekins)
Golfing Matilda (P. V. LeForge)
Hotei among the Toads and the Ferrules (John Pekins)
Tanka without Clubs (P. V. LeForge)
Dying at the Hole (P. V. LeForge)
Eighty (John Pekins)
Section 3: And All the Rest
What Goes Left (P. V. LeForge)
In the Zone (P. V. LeForge)
Two Laid Up Poems (John Pekins)
Brand New Driver Blues (P. V. LeForge)
The Gallery (P. V. LeForge)
T Minus (P. V. LeForge)
Every Day Is a Good Day Playing Golf (John Pekins)
Entropy (P. V. LeForge)
Sixteen Once More (John Pekins)
Practice Haiku (P. V. LeForge)
Nineteenth Hole (At Last) (P. V. LeForge)
About the Authors
In Praise of Getting a Good Read