Three Poems published by North of Oxford's July issue

  

   The online journal, North of Oxford, has two familiar names heading up their masthead, Diane Sahmes and g emil reutter, have I've known since 2008 when they edited the Fox Chase Review. It was very cool to see them start this new journal and to have three of my poems accepted for their July issue.  

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 Here's the story behind the poems

 1) lepidopterans-  I wrote this at an evening at The Walnut Street Cafe in Lynn, a place I love, and a poetry series (Speak Up), I often attend. At their register is a glass display case with their selection of bottled beer. I wrote this poem about that. 

 2) The Storm He Can No Longer Remember: Written in my father's POV, near the end of his life. 

 3) When the Mind Goes First (for my father):  I lost my father in 2022, and although some say one never recovers from that, perhaps it's more like one doesn't wish to forget a loved one.  Reminiscing about my father thinking about his death.