The Touch: Poems & Prose

“Fear Not my dear, Fear not of meFear Not for fear shall not help theeThe time is short, my plans are madeYour casket shall be trimmed with jade.”

Thus begins Aurore Leigh Barrett’s poem, “Fear Not” – an homage to one of her favorite poets, Edgar Allan Poe. It masterfully combines the macabre with the humorous. This stellar work, which Poe, no doubt, would wish he had written, is just one of a few poems in this current collection written in his honor – and one of many poems you will find th...