Personal Growth
By Reid Baer

After all that I do
And all that I want
It’s hard to see I’m
Still a dilettante

- from “The Man from Four Quarters” available at:
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In First Place
By Reid Baer


I was 19 and green
as a missionary
in South America
trying to be very
good walking the land of
Simón Bolívar with
a compañero from
Columbia who just
could not speak English and...

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Up For A Fight
By Reid Baer

My father was always
anxiously afraid of
the wolf pacing outside
the house so he key-locked
the front, back, and side doors
from the inside and if
there had been a fire God
forbid we would have...

I’m “Outstanding In My Field.”
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Mandala of a Latter-Day Saint
By Reid Baer

I left in sufficient time
to make a sacrament meeting
in a strange community
with a scratch piece of paper,
an address, and simple directions.
I’m driving with a head full
of internecine...

Peculiar People
By Reid Baer

There is an absolute
expectation in this
blessed tribe of lively
participation and
by all means let us put
our shoulder to the wheel
as we travel across
this great promised land - yet
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Love Is A Dream With Wine
By Reid Baer

Her face was oval and
her eyes bright hazel brown
matching her brunette bobbed
hair bouncing perfectly
in motion with her step
through a deliberate world -
and I couldn’t help but...

CONPIRACY
By Reid Baer

There’s a truly evil
cabal alright just this
side of the veil and past
the next where human beings
and elusive spirits
sink willingly into
the mouth of the Beast gorged
on lies and greed playing
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ConstaPanic
By Reid Baer

My siblings follow the
family golden rule and
make plenty of it but
me, I don’t pursue them,
only a voice in my
head telling me I don’t
belong there and I’m a
stranger around here in
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