AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“SOMEWHERE” appears this week for April 17, International Haiku Poetry Day. The author shared this in 1992 with her “Round Robin” poetry friends who shared and commented on poetry they exchanged by mail. On her original she wrote the following:

“This is a little poem which I wrote many years ago, but I thought it might be appropriate since we have lost one of our “robins”—I am sure she has seen those blossoms.

Speaking of syllable count as I have in comments, this haiku or senreyu or whatever, the last line has just 4 syllables. Someone once suggested changing it to “blossoms are waiting”—but that says something entirely different, so I never changed it. and I’m glad.”

REFRACTIONS—poetry by Robert Roxby

“THE MINERS” is included this week for That Sucks Day, April 14. The scenes in this poem were a daily vision in the poet’s childhood. The 1930s Depression had hit his area by the time he graduated high school (the only one in his family to do so), and so his family talked him into a job as a coal miner. Even having seen and felt what he reveals in this poem, he spent the day in that particular hole. But when he emerged, he declared he would never again enter a mine to work, even though jobs were so scarce during the Depression. This poem first appeared in the author’s collection, Reflections on a Lifetime.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“EASTER” is a piece the author intended as a sort of Easter Card verse to share with family when her grandmother was still living.