Each poem in Wayne Luthi's
I Am Here, Let's Go Home: Poems of San Francisco, of Earlier Times and Places
is its own vignette that captures an intimate moment, from the streets and moods of San Francisco, to the alleys and flats of London, the pathways and control towers of Thailand during the Viet Nam War, and the knobs of Kentucky. These poems offer the opportunity to step into the realm of the reflective, with descriptions of sights, flavors, and scents, to take a moment aside from the normal demands of our attention.