A Collection of Poems by Patricia Miller
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Left Behind
I’m planted on a stump
Drinking bottled water
Watching you hike on
The dirt road bleached by sun
Squirrels scamper up trees
My sandals sink in moss
How did we get to this place
You so far ahead
And I so far behind
I stomp white mushrooms
Growing at my feet
Freeing my hurt
Before you round a bend
I will the turn of your head
You glance back
I smile
Why can’t we go to New York City?
There’s still time.
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Spring Promise
The notion is to smell the wet grass
Out in the open space between the pines
See the snow melting before your eyes
And picture yourself in a red swimsuit
Dipping your toes in the lake
Feeling the warm waves
Hoping the fish don’t nibble
Craving more sunshine
Sixty sleeps from today
You will wonder if you should have snacked less
Regret eating the salty chips
Search for excuses
And finally
Strip away your fear and –
Splash!
The World

In 2008, Patricia established the BWG Writers’ Circle, a group of adult Writers that meets for fellowship and sharing at the Bradford Public Library.Patricia’s poem Birthday Mosaic 40 was published in the literary journal The Toronto Quarterly – Issue Five in 2010. Her poem Our Cottage My Heaven was published in Anthology: From the Cottage Porch by Sunshine in a Jar Press in 2011. The anthology is a dynamic collection of forty stories and poems.
Patricia is delighted that her true love story Catching Snowflakes appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul: O Canada The Wonders of Winter in 2013.
www.chickensoup.comPatricia is thrilled that first fiction novel The Mausoleum Road Affair, a sweeping erotic romance, arrives from Swoon Romance in Fall, 2014.
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