AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“FOR DREAMERS BEHIND INVISIBLE WALLS” is a piece found among the author’s scraps and is likely not quite finished. It is presented this week for Free Thought Day, October 12.

REFRACTIONS—a poem by Robert Roxby

“NO LONGER HOME” mentions “Old Gobbers Knob” which refers to a location in Punxatawney, Pennsylvania where the author’s father worked for a time as a coal miner. The area is rich in native American lore which he writes about later this month. As a boy he wandered a lot on his own, with friends or brothers and fell in love with the untamed nature that abounded in the area. The poem is offered this week for  October 7, UN World Habitat Day, a subject dear to the heart of the author.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“WHEN A POET MAY NOT DREAM” is offered this week for Free Thought Day, October 12. The poem was inspired by the poet Czeslaw Milosz and his fellow artists who protested and persisted under the restrictive regime of the USSR in Poland. The poem can also be found in the Wheelsong Poetry Anthology Four, published 2024.