CONTENTS

   Introduction                                   1 

                 PART ONE
            Poems by Blanton Dorman 

   The Difficulty of Definition                    7

   Mother                                         10 

   Song of Laughing Life                          12
 
   Christmas Wishing                              14 

   The Saving Power of Honesty and Love           15 
 
   Childhood's Christmas Trees                    22 

   Ig                                             29

   To Sallie at Christmas                         32
 
   The Good You Do Can Never Die                  35

   Legacy                                         37

   Unfinished Poem                                39