Author’s Notes

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“WINTER MORN” is a syllable haiku (5 – 7 – 5).

REFRACTIONS

“WINTER TREASURE” by Robert Roxby. This poem is a memory from 1935 when the author was only two years out of high school. It may have been in his hometown of Wheeling, West Virginia, or it may have been in a CCC camp somewhere in Tennessee.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“THE GREAT FREEZE AND THE THAW” was written after the first month and  one-half of isolation dictated by the COVID19 virus. The freeze began while the author was still working and continued into her retirement where she sorted the “chaos” of years of accumulated family history. During that time she found herself unable to write creatively. Then suddenly in May of 2020, the words began to flow. This particular poem was created in response to a prompt in a online workshop, “Writing Through the Apocalypse” hosted by Marcia Meier.