Charles D. Tarlton is a retired political science professor who taught at Universities in Victoria, BC CANADA, California and New York and is Professor Emeritus, University at Albany, The State University of New York. Poetry has always been central in his life, even as he pursued a career and a living teaching political ideas. In recent years he has focused almost entirely on writing poems, and this offering" Reflections on Edmund Burke" is his most recent work. He lives on the shore, now, in Connecticut, with his wife, Ann Knickerbocker, an abstract painter, and Nikki, their black standard poodle.