Author’s Notes

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“I KNOW THIS COAST” was first published in RipRap, 1981. Strolling along the bluff above either Laguna Beach or La Jolla, California, the author was inspired to write this poem.

REFRACTIONS—memoir poem by Kathleen Roxby

“BELMONT PIER WITH FISHERMEN, Circa 1960,” is a memory from the author’s teen years. The featured pier did have a bait shack, but no fast food was sold there. She borrowed that idea from the Fisherman’s Wharf located elsewhere in the harbor. This poem was first published in Art/Life, Vol. 20, No. 1.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“Orange Days” was written as a part of the author’s color inspired series “Singular Prism.” The orange days of summer for the author were miles of orange groves through which her family drove on their way to Disneyland. As she wrote this, she also thought of her mother’s shared memory of the wonder of receiving an orange in the middle of a West Virginia winter tucked into the toe of her Christmas stocking.