Crowds can be interesting, bewildering, scary, and, in small gatherings
great fun, especially writers’ groups …
A GATHERING
they’re holding
a writers’ festival 
on the far side
of the sky
up where sci-fi
western horror
tales hang out
with clouds
of novelists
a mist of poets
free verse
and rhyming
any soul with
pen in hand
laptop computer
and words to spend
is welcome
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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