In the centerpiece of this haunting collection, a very old man ruminates on his early days as a homesteader and the old ways that are being lost. This man, nearly mythical, who knows earth intimately, is present unnamed in all the poems of Leftover Ordinary, poems which are anything but Òordinary.Ó Like the poems of Jean Follain, each one stands at some intersection of history and geography, from which mystery can be glimsped in several directions at once. -Thomas R. Smith, author of Horse of Earth and The Dark Indigo Current