
Arrow leaf, balsam root
Blanket the hillside
near a pristine lake,
bring hope of spring
soon to come,
an end to brutal winter.
Warm temperatures
around the corner
melt snow, clear ice.
A new beginning
will shortly arrive,
end nature’s tyranny,
but even in June,
snow dots mountaintops,
as winter holds on.
Meanwhile, in the valleys,
spring has arrived
with lupine, hope.
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The above poem was recently published in The Weekly Avocet. You can click below to hear me read it.
By the way, for those of you who use the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, The Red Dress is available for download from their site here. No matter how you read it, please be sure to review it wherever you can. That goes for all my books. Thank you for stopping by. Stay safe, happy, and healthy.
New! The Red Dress
Copyright July 2019 by DLD Books

Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.
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