Norbert Krapf, The Return of Sunshine:
Poems by a Laureate for Ecstatic Grandparents.
Table of Contents
I.Meeting My Grandson in Regensburg
Prenatal Prayer for Peyton
Peyton in the Womb on His Name
What Newborn Peyton Might Have Written in His Journal
House by the Woods
Tiny Fingers
New Day
Mother and Son Eyes
Baby Peyton Philosopher
Mother and Son
Father and Son
Four-Letter Word for a Grandson
The Blessing of Attention
Meeting My Grandson in Regensburg
The Kiss
Singing Indiana Bird Song to My Grandson
At Your Welcoming Party
One Grandpa on the Other
Soul Singing
Little Dragon Fresser
Little Solids Man Liturgy
Holding on and Letting Go
Santa Peyton Prayer
High Chair Man
First German-American-Colombian Boogie Woogie
The Lamm Boys in Mama Elizabeth’s Kitchen
A Voice Speaks Late of You
II.Cheerios in Tuscany
Arriving at Casa Gulia
Opa Poem
Cheerios in Tuscany
Forty-Fifth Anniversary
Making Pizza in Tuscany
Put Me in a Tuscan Garden
Maria and the Fresh Eggs
Babysitting in a Tuscan Villa
Sometimes Sunlight
Cheerios in Bed in Berlin
This Sleeping Face
Grandson Observing an Apple
Grandson’s Words at Two
How You Sit on My Lap
Peyton as Papa for Tiku
Glad to Be
Prayer Recited with My Grandson on the Return
of the Sunshine
Peyton, Patti, Bob and the Nobel Prize in Literature
Standing Before the Christmas Tree
The Bringer of Light
Unbroken Christmas Circle
The Regensburg Snow Angel
III.In the Woods Kindergarten
The Little Astronaut
First Day at the Woods Kindergarten
How to Get into the Woods
WaldKiga Routine
Kunigunde and Peyton in the Woods
Brunhilde and Peyton in the Woods
WaldKiga Relief
What Peyton and Opa See in the Woods
Peyton and Opa Walking in the Woods
Peyton and His Magic Stick
Peyton and Paulina
Peyton Brings Me Back
Night Journey in Snowy Landscape
with Children and Animals
The Golden Leaf
Future Love Song for My Grandson