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Bio For a month in 1989 Chuck Taylor taught at Texas A&M and slept nights in his station wagon in the woods, close to Easter Wood Airport, surrounded by oak trees. He'd been paid $1,700 for his first reading at St. Edward's University in Austin in 1975, taught at UTEP in creative writing, worked as a CETA Poet-in-Residence in Salt Lake City, worked as a Poet-in-the-Schools in Galveston, Beaumont, and San Antonio, taught at UT/Austin and UT/Tyler, and lived as a back-to the-land hippie in East Texas, all the while publishing poetry, a novel, story books, and operating a small press. He taught undergraduate and graduate creative at A&M from 1989 to 2015, and continued to write and publish but never garnered fame. He was bored with the concept and preferred hanging with wife, cats, dogs, and three children. He lives in hill country spring land Central Texas and spends as much time as he can with family and grandchildren, a blessed and lucky man.)

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Chuck Taylor On Happiness

Chuck Taylor on Happiness

Happiness comes as you climb a hill and
The sun is setting, white azaleas blazing
In the rain; happiness whisks around like a
Moth buzzing your nose, as a lizard, black-
Stripped, slips in and out of cracks in a cliff's
Limestone; happiness in action: making
Pies outside from sand in Corallina's
Comfy play kitchen, then finding in the
Garage a stray tabby cat; happiness,
Standing in line behind a farmer in
The Dollar Store, he's sold his farm and is
About to heave with his love for mountain
Mexico: happiness, finding in a
Used bookstore a picture book, that thirty
Years ago, a pen friend sent from Japan;
Happiness, getting a shovel, lifting
Out an exhausted toad trapped in your child's
Plastic summer wading pool, and then you
Remember - you don't know why - your first kiss,
In a slow rain, under an umbrella,
In front of a an abandoned grocery
Store you'd found a back way in to explore.
Don't hang yourself for happiness. It's out
There waiting always for you to find it.

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