NOSTOS by LAUREN JEDLAN
Lauren is a teacher and gifted
poet, published in most J.Mark Press anthologies for which
she's won many reader-vote awards.
So many of her statements
"hit home." You can hardly say which poem you like
best
In this stunning laminated hard-cover.
It is further enhanced with some
appropriate classic illustrations from the J. Mark Press
anthologies
Lauren has appeared in and won awards for.
Send $16.95+$3 post/hand. to
Lauren Jedlan,3525 Tournefort St,Chalmette, LA 70043
(This selection is one of the editor's
favorites)
FOG AND ICE
Dear one, I abandoned you when I was too green to know
return is not a simple thing. One travels far, and
then,
fate has it so, there is no turning back.
Could I escape this dovecote, I would fly to your feet;
yet, solitude conquered you, devouring your memory of me.
Not Argus, you no longer see more than a stranger.
The golden thread in you did not endure, but snapped;
about my heart, instead, it strengthened, tangled with
regret.
Not even raging storms, blackening skies, maddening seas,
could drive me home: shipwrecked and forlorn,
I met your signal, of fog and ice.
LAUREN JEDLAN
