Greco

Susan Appleton hasn't had it easy. After losing her husband in a horrible car accident, she was forced to move fifty miles away to eastern Long Island. Her commute to Manhattan became a grueling two and half hours, putting further strain on her tenuous relationship with her son. Just when things seemed to be getting manageable, she was fired from her job of seventeen years. But since her termination, she is finally living the life she's always wanted....

These poems dwell in the hearth of domesticity, but they look beyond the confines of the home with clear eyes. Boldly unafraid, they confront the realities of climate change, the desecration of habitat, some quiet truths about aging and death. The first section consists primarily of the experience of childhood, not all of it particularly pleasant - much of it a reflection of an era that, thankfully, is now behind us with its often oppressive atmosphere....

Midlife is a season of challenge and change-professionally, relationally, physically, and spiritually.

Jacques' heart is haunted by the faded ghost of a distant father he has tried to forget, and by the tender shadow of a girl's smile he cannot remember. To dull his pain, he falls into hedonism: exotic locales, thrilling escapades and above all, beautiful women. Fleeing his wife's alcoholism, his memories of his first love, and his fear of becoming like his father, Jacques struggles to find an escape. He finds it in the embrace of a string of beautiful...