You are mink, sleek, dark, beautiful and expensive and I am fox uncommonly sly and wary. You are seen, felt, adored, adorned, by women filled with the chill of winters welcomed by tiers of diamonds frozen fast against delicate skins.
As rabbits flee from time worn warrens and foxes continue their conditioning for survival. Freer still are they being less conspicuous, less coveted, less popular as they watch you in the death throes of convention
And a caged bird sings of hills forever green as we pray for an end to withered dreams which hasten our extinction.
You are mink, sleek, dark, beautiful and expensive And I am fox uncommonly sly and wary.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
This collection of poetry addresses the nature of time, reflections on the natural world, the difficulty of loss,
contemporary social issues and gratitude for life.
Under Amber Skies, written by author and poet Jill Eisnaugle, is a wonderful collection of rhyming poetry guaranteed to please every reader. In this, her second book, she writes of new friendships kindled, as well as old friendships solidified. She g
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