This Paradox Shadow
Publisher: Spoon River Poetry Press
Published: December 1982
Place of publication: Peoria, Illinois
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780933180338
Subjects: General; Poetry; Single Author
First sentence: "I kneel to touch back."
Description: One of the poems in this book is entitled, "What are Heaven's Dimensions?"  These are the dimensions, my mother, Jane Morrel, covered.
She asks in one poem, "Tell me what is Chartered".  All my life, mother told me stories, wonderful stories from Prospect School where she and her sister, Bea, used acorns for cups, to her teacher who wore fancy socks; when her brother, Henry was in the army, and his dog slept under his bedroom window while he was away; when her father, drinking, lay down in the chicken house and the family hid the guns.
Mother is the only person that I ever knew completely.  I miss this.
Notes: Mother was the star of her family.  She was the one who went to college, helped by Henry, her brother, who was working for the post office.
She taught at Red Bud Reservation in South Dakota; Moore School in Moore, Oklahoma; Prairie
School, Oklahoma; Hixson School, Tennessee, and a school in Fayetteville, Arkansas, whose name I don't know.  She told us stories about all these places.  
When she was in her seventies, she was a "play lady' at Memorial Medical Center for little children who were ill.  I have her five year pin.  Poems about the children are in this book:
Table of contents: title: Section I:  I Kneel To Touch Back; title: Section 2:  Memory Pressing Alternate Pedals; title: Section 3:  My Radiant Delusion; title: Section 4:  Love in a New Vein; title: Section 5:  In Kept Waters; title: Section 6:  The Impromptu Wind; title: Section 7:  Drum Ruffled Pages; title: Section 8:  New Moons in Space