Leaving UC-Berkeley A.B.D., (All but dissertation), Bromige took a teaching position in the English Department at Sonoma State University in 1970. Then came seven books in two years. This is Bromige at an early peak. "Ten Years in the Making" began it. This book consisted of some of his early work, going back to 1960, work engagingly open to the merest reader. Then come selections from "The Gathering", followed by poems from "Threads". Next came "Birds of the West", from Victor Coleman of Coachhouse Press in Toronto. This book consists of three sections: a journal of gardening and visitors; a section of more finished poems, filled with a landscape of Western Sonoma County; and a single, long poem written in sparse triplets to reflect a white-tail kite's hovering flight.