AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“GYPSY DREAMS” was selected this week for upcoming Halloween when children dress up in costumes and thoughts of magic are in the air. Gypsies and fairies are recurrent themes in the author’s poems. She, herself, held a belief that in a former life she must have been a gypsy somewhere on the Iberian peninsula.

REFRACTIONS –a poem by Robert Roxby

“LAST LEAF” first appeared in the author’s 2000 poetry anthology, Reflections of a Lifetime. It is included for this month as Autumn leaves are falling.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“PETER PUMPKIN-EATER WAS CRUEL” was written when the author was writing a series of poems with color as the overall theme. As may be guessed, the author would not choose orange as a favorite color.