Mona Sizer

Before the Wind: Poems out of My Life and Thought Mona Sizer

The poems in Before the Wind must speak for themselves with passionate clarity:"A shriek in black ink down a diary's page." from "Passage: March 9, 1936.""Savoring the perversity of power, I opened my hand." from "Adventuring""In that world within our worldThe explosion of Armageddon!" from "A Conundrum Visited.""Oh! Greedy Race to want much more than human!" from "Speed""Thirty-four million miles apart, Through space so narrow thatYour passing's like a kiss."from "On Seeing Mars" (August 27, 2003) All the elements of fine ballads, free and rhymed verses, sonnets, and a villanelle are present in this volume. The past collides with the present in surprising images, and the vivid future is both possible and probable.