AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“UPON SILENT SANDS” alludes to the ancient Greek poet Sapho, a person and talent who fascinated Margaret Roxby when she first learned of this person in high school. The idea of an island where poets, especially female poet (like herself) might go to live with, among and within poetry while creating it yourself seemed ideal.

REFRACTIONS –an essay by Kathleen Roxby

“WHY HOME IS A SHORE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD” is a recent essay written as part a writing workshop, Writing Through the Apocolypse, led by Marcia Meier. This piece reflects the discovery the author made when feeling vaguely unwell during an extended trip in the British Isles. On a free day rather than resting in bed, she went for a walk along the nearby shore of a firth near Troon, Scotland. Slowly she found all her dis-ease seeped away revealing to her the ill feeling had been homesickness, something she had never felt before and which the salt air, waves lapping the shore, shells and sands of the beach had cured.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“HOVERING” describes a situation the author experienced more than once when she worked as a secretary and manager of a computer system. The poem is included this week for bring your manners to work day, September 4.