Sharon Webster

Everyone Lives Here Sharon Webster

The poems in Everyone Lives Here create a world of varied, yet singular voices. Speaking of a treasured friend with Down Syndrome, a partner having surgery, or a tired cleaning lady, Webster looks for the common thread and finds:

] Step after step

] is everyone's name.




] Moving through the seasons, these poems and the evocative photos of Webster's visual artwork that accompany them are sensuously alive and watchful, on the lookout for new ways to see - and say.




A loaded baseball diamond lives inside everyone while a tiny reflection of grass in the window tells a long story

to keep my heart

afloat.