Wheel of Water
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781807212254
Publisher: Red Rock Publishers
Published: May 15 2026
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.93
Height: 0.78 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Wheel of Water
From snow falling on a Los Angeles morning to the glow of a ham radio dial, these pages trace a son's long look at the parents who made, and unmade, a home. Set against mid-century southern California, aircraft carriers and Disneyland. segregated pools and Friday-night fights, this memoir-in-moments captures how memory shifts while feelings stay true. A quiet, razor-sharp father speaks most comfortably in Morse code; a drama-queen mother lifts a martini and fills the room with laughter and sparkling conversation, determined to be the center of every party; three daughters push against patriarchy; and a son observes his parents sliding toward acrimony as he grows older. Tender, wry, and unsparing, this book is a love letter to the messy facts of family and the small weather of a life that still changes us when we read it.
Author Biography
David Baldwin wrote haiku and tanka poetry in his working years as a technical writer. After retirement, he embraced other poetic forms: sonnets, villanelles, terza rima, ballads, and free verse. He even wrote lyrics for church anthems. Wheel of Water is a compilation of poems covering a wide variety of subjects.
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