Lions Walk Around My Bed: Selected Poems

These poems fall into three groups: The first, Lions Walk Around My Bed, records an inner life of dreams, imagination, and belief during the Second World War. The Rags of Time deals with the decades between the 1940s and 1990, reflecting on choice, anger, fear, hope, and loss. There are sketches of people as disparate as a fop met on a high-rise elevator, a sixties flower child, and patients on the violent and suicide wards of a state mental hospital. Here Where We Are completes the book, covering a quarter century of putting down roots in the New England countryside, living in a home the author designed and built, and where she finally felt at home in America. It s a meditation on the loveliness of the changing seasons, the profound sadness of having to leave her home as she aged, and of the joyful challenge: what next?