A compelling, engrossing and poignant collection of thematically connected poems, centered around the admiration and love of a son for his father and his efforts to follow in his father’s storytelling footsteps. The author is often the narrator’s voice, presenting prose poem snapshots of a wonderful and troubled midwestern, mid twentieth century youth, coming of age. He navigates through high school’s emotional turbulence in the shadow of his father, Mr. Mac, a popular teacher, who entertains students, and student teachers with his lumberjack camp, experiential tales. Traditional notions of what it takes to become a man are illustrated and explored. The spirit, the spunk and the soft side of both father and son are evoked in these delightful poems.