I picked “Slender Stalk” for the name of this poetry collection because of the sweet, long history I have with a lovely song I learned when I was a little girl. I think of my pen as the stalk and each of these little poems as one of those fragile bells waiting to fall on to the paper. If you’d like to read the whole story, click here. If you’d like to know why I write poems, click here.

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