Jamail Center for Legal Research
Tarlton Law Library

Ecstatic Death

An alien god
Beckons to me from offshore.
I rise to follow.

   -- homage to Thomas Mann

Interior Design

Melancholy days
Come in a choice of colors:
Gray, or green, or red.

My Birthday

Measured breath by breath,
Fifty years seems a long time
To have passed so soon.

Friedrick Haines was born in Denver, Colorado in 1952. He was educated at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and received his J.D. degree from the University of Denver in 1983. Until 1999, Haines devoted his practice to commercial litigation and commercial bankruptcy. He now works for the Colorado Department of Law as First Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation Section.