Author’s Notes

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“LOVE LETTER, A REMNANT”. This selection was found in its original hastily scribbled version among the poet’s papers. It was then edited by this site’s content manager for release this month.

KALEIDOSCOPE—a series by Kathleen Roxby

“Spic and Span Again?.” This idiom attracted the author’s attention when she was a child and her grandmother often used it to describe her goal when cleaning up. The expression never seemed, to the author, to have anything to do with “clean”. When at last the cleanser of that name appeared in her house, she assumed that her grandmother took her cue from the cleanser, meaning that the house needed to be scrubbed clean. However, even that explanation never really satisfied her curiosity until she finally did the research resulting in this blog. Note: the product of this name was first introduced in 1933.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“LOVE’S GENTLE DYING LIGHT” is the result of a poetry assignment to write in iambic pentameter about some unpoetic object. What is described is a true happening. Kathleen was in college, and the young man at the door was someone she knew from her Drama work. They had been at a party hosted by friends who lived just a block from her house. He offered to walk her home when, at one o’clock the amount of smoke in the party rooms proved too much for her. The events in the poem happened as written.