title: You & I: A Lifetime of Poems
author: Danny Boy
description: Danny Boy was born and raised in southwest Wisconsin, where he grew up on a family seed farm, and has worked in seed sales for most of his life. He has a master's degree in guidance and counseling from the University of Wisconsin and served as pastor of The Lima Union Congregational Church in Platteville, Wisconsin. He is also the founder, owner, and operator of Go For Folks, LLC, an errand and small delivery service company. Danny Boy has served on many board of directors, most notably The Wisconsin Turf Association, serving as president for eight years. He is most proud of his family, being a husband and father for forty years and a grandfather for ten.
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  It was the silence I noticed first. When Danny was around there was always noise, singing or 
  humming, the tap-tapping of a laptop keyboard, the prolonged clatter of spoon against ceramic 
  mug as he stirred his black coffee vigorously for far too long, in my view, for a man who didn’t 
  even take sugar in it – what was he stirring? But I loved it, his noisiness, despite my regular 
  protestations to the contrary. I’d lived alone for far too long before Danny, and the constant 
  clamour made me feel connected, alive. Happy. So that evening, as I pushed the front door 
  open and slid the key out of the lock, expecting a welcoming yell from the living room or to 
  see, within seconds, his grinning face peering around the kitchen door, disappointment hit me 
  like an icy wave. 
  ‘Danny? Danny, I’m home. Where are you?’ 
  I could tell even as I spoke that he wasn’t in but, flicking the lights on and dumping my 
  overnight bag on the table by the door, I began a quick tour of the house anyway, my 