Driving home, as I turn a corner I catch a glimpse of someone or something … small things, moments caught and held in memory, that one tries to pin down, go back to, hold onto … these things …
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garden gate –
you and I
pick roses
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the deer, the dog 
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watchful
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empty stands
at the ball park …
a scavenge of crows
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A Summer Father … poems as deceptively simple and cunning as a sniper’s bullet. This book is a Remembrance Day poppy. Dave Margoshes
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About Joanna M. Weston
Born in England, she is now living in Shawnigan Lake, BC. She is married to Robert, an accountant, and they have three sons,
Andrew
Jon
Mark
... and two cats, Alice and Chaucer.
Joanna has an MA from the University of British Columbia. She has published in numerous anthologies and in magazines in Canada, the US, UK, and New Zealand, such as Canadian Women's Studies, Convolvus, Endless Mountains Review, Grain, Green's Magazine, Prairie Fire, Spin, Wascana Review, CBC Gallery, and many more...
Clarity House Press has published several of her chapbooks including:
Berry and the Birthday Band (2010)
One of These Little Ones (1987) – out of print
Cuernavaca Diary (1990) – out of print
Seasons (1993) – out of print
Watch-night (2005) – out of print
garden gate –
empty stands
A Summer Father … poems as deceptively simple and cunning as a sniper’s bullet. This book is a Remembrance Day poppy. Dave Margoshes 
Very lovely presentation Joanna . I imagine non poetry readers would be drawn to these. I love your “cover” as well. Please visit my page one day . Good on you for putting effort into sending your poems out-there. That link below popped up I can’t recall what it is. Love Vivienne
Hi Vivienne, Many thanks for your wonderful words. I will re-visit your blog right now! Been away for a couple of weeks and
am struggling to get re-organized. All the best, Joanna
Joanna, No sure where you will end up. One is Family history and might not interest you.The other is about leaving NZ to live in Australia. Enlgish and Kiwi friends found it amusing .It’s a funny thing that we come from similar stock, some decades later and mainly from England and Scotland , but the mostly Irish Aussies resent us. I think they see us as “goody goods” keeping in with Britain. Been here almost twenty years and yet still friends grumble that we came to live here.That we talk funny and that we take their jobs .It does get tedious. because we are all immigrants. Love Vivienne