AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry of Margaret Roxby

“WITHOUT ANSWER” has been titled and shortened for this release. The author had not completed her thoughts leaving only these words and a few others on the back of a used envelope. The poet spent her childhood and early adulthood a few blocks of the Ohio River which undoubtedly is the river she refers to here.

REFRACTIONS— the poetry of Robert Roxby

“GRANDPARENTS NEEDED” is included this week for National Letter to an Elder Day, February 26. The author’s own grandfathers had died before he was born. It is unknown if he had acquaintance with his wife’s grandfather who also had died before Robert and Margaret married. Robert did know one of Margaret’s brothers as they were high school seniors together and it is possible that Robert did meet Margaret’s grandfather who was still alive at that time. The poem was found in the poet’s notebook.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS— the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“WAITING” is included this week for February 28, World Quiet Day. The poem is another in the series the author wrote during a period of depression, this time referring to one year in her teens.