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Like the adventuresome arc of his life, Michael Gillen's haikus range through time, seasons and places--sometimes sketching delightful miniature portraits of Mother Nature, sometimes unveiling startling encounters with human nature. That's a summary of Wild Geese Returning that I wrote for the back cover of this homage to migratory birds, arts and cultures Gillen embraces, starting with Merchant Marine voyages to Vietnam that set the course of a life that challenges human boundaries in war and peace. —Jan Barry, author of Earth Songs: New and Selected Poems