Betsy

Link: http://eharringtonwrites.com/

Alex has retired to the living room and Claudette taken his place before the alter, expressing her contentment in quiet purrs and nose licks and bumps.

Betsy's  mother and I were college classmates and our families have been life-long friends. Though she and her mother have shared various poems, when her book Earth Milk was published I was distracted by events.

So I just this past week obtained and read the body of work it encompasses.  Artistically it is great work. The proof of the authenticity of her vision is in how the poems transport me back to a time when my own emotional nature was developing.  She and I share/ed several greater than life characters.   I find myself in wonder at how much the little girl observed and understood.

Too often it seems we encourage our children to not notice, to just "believe," and later we are encouraged to just forget, to "move on. "  That is how we lose our bearings.

My experience is of course unique but those who enjoy poetry, and who doesn't, will love this book.

Read more about Betsy here http://eharringtonwrites.com/ and here  http://www.mainstreetrag.com/EHarrington.html .