Cashing A Check

"Cashing A Check" was the first poem that I had written in 45 years and the book of the same name was the first book of poems (actually a chapbook) was the first poetry anthology that I had ever published. Now, 13 years after the first poem and 10 years after this book, I am the Poet Laureate of the Town of Yorktown, NY, a member of the American Academy of Poets and Poets & Writers, and the author of six collections of poetry (his most recent "Live At The Freight House" is available at Amazon in both paperback and Kindle formats).

My incarnation as a poet is described in the poem "Poetry" (which is really taken from another chapbook, "With A Chip On My Shoulder" and is the the only poem not in the original Cashing A Check Volume), the second poem here.

Life takes funny twists and turns!

Notes:

• "Guinan's" is the legendary, now defunct, Irish Pub located on the banks of the Hudson in Garrison, New York
• Msgr. Thomas Sandi is the pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Roman Catholic Parish in Shrub Oak, NY
• The neighborhood, in which many memories described here are set, is "Inwood", the northern most tip of Manhattan Island. The time referred to was the pre-pill, eighteen legal drinking age period in New York