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La Levee, queen of the house 
at age three. 
Silver Birch Press
April 5, 2015

Bodhisattva Guanyin, an interfaith ekphrastic poem in

Angle: Journal of Poetry in English, Vol. 3 Iss. 2, 
Fall/Winter 2014.
Wayne-Daniel Berard of Soul Lit: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry  says Jane's poetry has a lovely, gentle power (not the less powerful for its gentleness.) Read her four new poems by clicking on "Vol. 8 - Summer 2014 issue" and then on her name, 3rd down on the index page. 
Young Means Forever Unchanging
Awarded 2nd Place in the Poetry Matters Celebration Contest, 2013

Of all my ESL students,
Young is the one I can't reach.
No sense of syntax at all.
Random words tumble from him
like poetry magnets, in heaps,
and he's lost most of the verbs....read more...

Watching Jimi at Monterey

Hendrix mounted his Fender
onstage a gleaming, virgin
Wild Thing...
read more on p. 59

The Mall

On the list of things that I hate most of all
the one I hate most is a day at the mall
...read more...
Moving Day

You moved into your dorm a sticky day.
We schlepped your stuff and sweat with no A.C.
I vowed I wouldn't bawl. I'd be OK.
I, too, was moving on. Now I was free
...read more...

The Change

A good wife at mid-life does strange things she would never have   
     dared before --
 selfish things, healthy things -- like sharing gripes she'd never have
     aired before...
read more...

Give and Take

Awarded 2nd place in the Poetry Matters Celebration Contest - 2012
Icarus

O
the
whoosh
in my ears
    A mile high above the beach I soar   my unfettered   Arms outstretched bathing in crisp air
    higher even than the gulls        thoughts       bare feet dangling in the void
vacant
frantic
as
bees

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