Author’s Notes

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“CINQUAIN FOR CHRISTMAS” is the result of another workshop, this time in haiku and cinquain composition. This poem speaks of Margaret’s love of this season.

REFRACTIONS

“OLD PAINT” by Robert Roxby.  This selection describes a memory from when the author was 13 and living in Wheeling, West Virginia.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—works by Kathleen Roxby

“WILL CHESTNUTS EVER TASTE SO SWEET AGAIN?” The author wrote this poem the Christmas following her mother’s death. It was a gift for a dear friend of her mother’s, the woman with whom she had shared the love of chestnuts at Christmas.