Tag: Of Roots and Wreckage

  • My Response to Laura A. Lord’s “Of Roots and Wreckage”

    My Response to Laura A. Lord‘s Of Roots and Wreckage Answering the call of Laura Lord’s poetry I write not as a poet For I have not Lord’s skill nor gift But in response to her words moving mine That, in itself, is testimony to how her words transport me Her words take me to places…

  • Laura A. Lord’s Of Roots and Wreckage

    In Of Roots and Wreckage, Laura A. Lord moves us with the imagery that has come to define her poetry. Whether looking into the brutal truths of where one calls home to moments of reveling in the joy and pain of an aging body – Lord is  to exploring in raw honesty the smallest of…