Kissing Frogs in California is a collection of Carolyn Franklin’s poetry starting with Phone Call and ending with Grandpa’s Girl. Each piece carries its own theme and style. Here are poems about strength, love, lust, undeserved allegiance, anger, obsession and respect. Franklin’s honesty is at once shocking and refreshing with a touch of hip rhythms and flowing verses. Her work will leave you embracing your own raw thoughts and emotions and appreciating the true magic that poetry provides.
Excerpt
You tried to buy my compliance
With shiny rainbow hairpins
But I felt ugly
When I touched them
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
