Author’s Notes

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

The poem “SUMMER LIVES,” is an Illini syllable sonnet which was first published in the 1987 collection of prize winning poems by the California Federation of Chaparral Poets. The author presents a nostalgic view of her childhood in West Virginia.  The river mentioned is the Ohio which was a favorite playground and ran only a short distance from all of her childhood homes in her home town of Wheeling or on her summer visits to the rural residence of a relative.

REFRACTIONS –a poem by Robert Roxby

“TRUANT WAKING” is in the author’s collected poems, Reflections on a Lifetime, 2000. The author wrote several poems on the subject of truancy. Although he did well enough in his high school to qualify for two scholarships—Chemistry and Mathematics, he was apparently frequently a truant in his youth while his parents lived in the Appalachian hills.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“FISHER IN THE SEA OF MEMORY” is included as a companion piece for “Summer Lives.”