Gather: Poems from the Heart about Nature, Love, Loss, and Hope

To Our Beautiful Readers,

These poems were written by my mother, Judith Rose, over a period of about 20 years. She didn't share them and we didn't read them ourselves until after her death in 1999. It took a long time for me to embrace her words because there is so very much of her in every poem. They range from happy high school memories, to simple little flowers budding for the first time, or tiny little crabs trying to navigate the ocean tide. It was how my mother saw the world in all of...