The cover photograph, entitled Life, is by Paula Grenside. Paula is a poet and a digital artist. Both in Poetry and Art she loves exploring what lies beyond reality and this often results in a surreal vision.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the journals in which these poems first appeared, sometimes in earlier versions:
charcoal man, Mannequin Envy
first grade activist, Mannequin Envy
homecoming, River Walk Journal
the mango tree, Blue Fifth Review
the olive farmer, Valparaiso Poetry Review
the party, Anti-
homesteader, Dead Mule of Southern Literature
mother wolf, Autumn Sky Poetry
our mother, Salt River Review
baobab girl, Salt River Review
the glue-makers’ guild, Shit Creek Review
april, Shit Creek Review
we were ten, Eclectica
what happened to cousin harriet, Eclectica
what is broken, qarrtsiluni
underlie, Avatar Review
vocation, The Adroitly Placed Word
you never thought, The Adroitly Placed Word
the night dancers, The Adroitly Placed Word
places of happiness (Dougga), Lily
poem for mother’s day, The Dirty Napkin
proper to darkness, Soundzine
song for my son, Soundzine
reasons, Loch Raven Review
places of happiness (Sylhet), Hobble Creek Review
places of happiness (Candelaria), Dark Sky Magazine
savannah man, Tongues of the Ocean
three provinces and their king, Tongues of the Ocean
oboe, Tongues of the Ocean
she came home suddenly, Tongues of the Ocean
the jungle and the bungalow, Poetry Friends
the soil maiden, Poetry Friends
family portrait, Words Myth
places of happiness (Dartmoor), Words Myth
we have no need of prophets, Words on the Web
thirst and decay, Escape Into Life
cocktail reception, Escape Into Life
they met among the junipers, Escape Into Life
the wanderers’ blessing, Escape Into Life
