Our local museum is a place of wonders, all kinds of antiques, photos,
jewellery, costumes, well organized and attractive. Well worth a visit …
BACK IN TIME
for a modest fee
you can wander into
our local museum
hold an antique brooch 
in your hand or hear
the old piano played
by a ghostly pianist
who releases tunes
that linger in the air
worn hammers
with moth-eaten felts
hit the strings
unevenly and yet
my heart sings
with the old music
and my feet itch
to step lightly in
an old-fashioned waltz
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‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art.
From Inanna Publications, 2016.
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About Joanna M. Weston
Born in England, she lives in British Columbia. She is married with three sons,
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...
Beautiful piece 👏👏
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
When I visit the one at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, I wonder if they might just want to keep me with all those old things I can recognize 😉
I’d be there first!