Novelist, Writer, and Poet
Just Released! Breaking the Surface, Poems: 2007-2009
A chapbook of poems written about the lake house in Northern Wisconsin where the poet spend her summers and still shares with her family. They are poems of memory and place as well as encompassing the arc of a life lived. Purchase Paperback or Buy for Amazon Kindle
My daughter says everything in this house
has its own story
from great-grandmother’s quilt
and mother’s ruby depression glass
to things I once unwrapped
from white paper and ribbon
reserved for wedding gifts.
Each spring, when I open the house
to clean and wash and rearrange
I remember the stories
and whisper them away with the dust
to make the ghosts more comfortable.
©2010, Janet Taliaferro
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I like this poem. I think it’s the grandparents house in Wisconsin and probably, simultaneously yours.
I didn’t know you had a website! I have one too.
Stay warm!
Hi, there. I’m formally replying although our e-mails are way ahead of this. Glad you found the web site, but with your boys, I’m not surprised.
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