Postcards from a Summer Girl
by C. E. Laine
Category: Poetry

Imagine a missing poet; vanished, without a trace. Whats left is this box of notes and postcards shes written. Some stranger enters her vacant rooms, finds these things, and is left to imagine a life and an identity for this wisp of words. Id like to begin this new collection with that bit of semi-fiction. It interests me to think of a character and a setting that could be consistent with these poems. This is a new approach. Earlier collections have been done with sub-sections, and lots of definitions in the footnotes, which was something of my earlier trademark. This new assortment of poems is really a collection of observations and reflections, some of them cathartic, others merely note-jotting. Much of it is whimsy, with a touch of grit around the edges.