Author’s Notes

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“YEARNING (From the Snow Forest)” was published 1974 in Bitterroot, An International Poetry Quarterly, and again in 1975 in The Pen Women.

KALEIDOSCOPE—a series by Kathleen Roxby

In ‘BOONDOCKS”, the author explores another “borrowed” word of the English language. This word fascinated the author as a child when the word “boon” was as yet unknown to her. She felt, then, that the word sounded like baby talk.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“THE TOUCH OF YELLOW” is another poem from the author’s series entitled “A Singular Prism.” For the author, yellow is the color of joy which is appropriate for the first day of the first month in Spring.