A Part of Me

Newly adoptive parents celebrate their child as they welcome the new millennium.A traveling circus performer past his prime stirs the heart of a local woman.A daughter regrets lost opportunities with her late father during his final year in a nursing home.A nineteenth century portrait of a mother and her dead child captures the horror of a deadly disease.In A Part of Me, these reflections and many others are shared with the reader. Collectively, these poems reveal a Western North Carolina woman's upbrining and the moments that have compelled her to examine a life in its complexity of joy and heartache.