Ash Wednesday: we head into Lent, the season of introspection, also of looking outward at the suffering of the world, and trying to help …
NOT ALONE
no well-beaten track
through this empty land 
no imprints of feet
or bent bramble
no way to tell
who came this way
only the smell of ashes
the taste of dust
and a still small voice
leading onward
A
first published in Leaves of Ink
‘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, May 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...