AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—poetry by Margaret Roxby

“A MUFFLED CALL” recalls a real experience of the author when she was young, still living in Wheeling, West Virginia. She told her daughter she often heard children playing late at night, calling to each other. This late hour play was common as many of those children worked in the mills, sharing the working hours of their parents, but it was the calling of her own name which haunted her. Was someone really calling her specifically that night? Who? It is included this week for June 11, National Children’s Day.

REFRACTIONS—a poem by Robert Roxby

“A ROSE” is included this week National Red Rose Day, June 12. The poem was found in the author’s poetry journal.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“WAS IT YOU?” is included this week as a companion to “A Muffled Call.”