With A Brief History of Time occupying the top spot of my pile of bedside books, I’ve had space and time on my mind lately. So, four poems… Read more “The Perils of Bedtime Reading”
Author: Amy Nawrocki
I am a poet with five poetry collections and three history books, co-authored by my husband and muse, Eric D. Lehman. I teach English and Creative Writing at the University of Bridgeport.
Moon Birds
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? For the first assignment in Poetry 205, we listened as students shared a poem they loved or one that inspired, intrigued…
First Day of Class
Prototype Bless the first day of class with its confined clutter. Notebooks stacked and piled like sculptures that say to the first lesson, I am ready for… Read more “First Day of Class”
Proof of Existence
Distilling Sol Lewitt Obliterate, says the line curve the horizon, resist tremors of an inexact hand tap into the statuesque control of an oblique axis, linger in… Read more “Proof of Existence”
Ordinary Acts
A Gathering of Sorts As morning curdles its way to noontime, autumn plays its lazy guitar. To join the living world, we make our way to the… Read more “Ordinary Acts”
A girl and a book
I’m reading a biography of L.M. Montgomery (by Jane Urquhart, Extraordinary Canadians Series), a poignant story of the writer’s life which makes her fiction even more meaningful.… Read more “A girl and a book”
Shadows of Paris
In honor of Eric D. Lehman’s novella Shadows of Paris winning the Silver Medal from Foreward INDIES Book Award, here is my poem from Lune de Miel. … Read more “Shadows of Paris”
Profiles in Paper and Stone
Portraiture Blissful is the frog who gambols from camouflage into the cool stream the moment the pen slips from a blank page, her hand abandoning those letters… Read more “Profiles in Paper and Stone”
Dunes of Heather
Loch Tay Between the castle and the Loch— a long way by car— we harness wet shadowless views of fells and sloped valleys. Between the bald… Read more “Dunes of Heather”
Normandy
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Eric at Gold Beach in Normandy, 2014 “The Leaves are Falling off the Trees” ~Normandy 2014 Tanks do not float and we…
