title: The Warning Of What I Feel Now: Poems and Images
author: Karen Riley
description: George Michael Metivier is a hopeless romantic with many years as a professional photographer. Owning his own business gave him an opportunity to use his art training by creating photoart works involving two hundred women. Accepted in two museums of art and several galleries, publications and other media, George has managed, at least, to illustrate, with humor, outrage and deep confusion the drama and pathos of what may be a quite ordinary love life. But is it? Perhaps it is these barricades and quicksands which make us more the human.Karen L. Riley tempers her hopeless romanticism with a woman's wisdom. Her life has been enriched by her dedication to art and the assimilation of creative attitudes among children. An excellent writer, she started as a journalist with a local newspaper in Long Beach and rapidly advanced to more sophisticated positions where her writing skills were necessarily used properly. She retains a wry sense of humor and a very human appreciation of the vagaries of love.
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  In loving memory of Semon Emil Knudsen II
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## PROLOGUE
  
  
  _They say that just before you die your whole life flashes_
  
  
  _before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me._
  
  
  
  
  
  _To be honest, I’d always thought the whole final-moment,_
  
  
  _mental life-scan thing sounded pretty awful. Some things are_
  
  
  _better left buried and forgotten, as my mom would say. I’d be_
  
  
  _happy to forget all of fifth grade, for example (the glasses-and-_
  
  
  _pink-braces period), and does anybody want to relive the first_
  
  
  _day of middle school? Add in all of the boring family vacations,_
  
  
  _pointle