Author’s Notes

GLASS RAIN – Poetry of Margaret Roxby

“HANDS OF THE OLD” was found among the author’s papers. It was inspired by her aging mother who “wrote” messages with her fingers on the arm of her wheelchair during a period when she suffered dementia lasting just over a month following a hospital stay for the flu and a broken hip. It is included this week as we contemplate time passing and the ending of another year.

REFRACTIONS – A poem by Robert Roxby

“THE PINOCLE GAME” describes a recurring event in the author’s family home during the 1920’s and 1930’s. It is included this week in honor of National Card Playing Day (December 27). The poem was first printed in the author’s collected poems, Reflections on a Lifetime.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—a poem by Kathleen Roxby

“TWO DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS 2020” was written during the first year of restrictions due to the COVID pandemic.

ANOTHER SPECTRUM SPECIAL

“This Is Bigamy,” was originally published in Southland Magazine, the Sunday magazine supplement of the Long Beach Press Telegram.