Summary disarms 

the merchant reminiscence  

preceding kinship. 

Guile’s charging lunges  

inflame foresight transmitted 

with market humor.  

Dissolved endeavors, 

corroding thus resurgence,  

tremble and embark.  

Chapters in reproach  

discolor the enclosure 

as mastery steams.  

Born in Michigan, Richard A. Cross moved in his preteens to Tennessee, where he continues to live now. Cross earned a B.S. in political science from Middle Tennessee State University. He has had two of his poetic works published to date. End of biographical statement