A Stepping-Off Place

<I>SCORCHED MEMORIES<br><br>I want to write a happy poem but I<br>Can't compose that sound-<br>That sound like a desperate fire truck's<br>Sirens piercing the atmosphere:<br>An angry screaming warison<br>Charging toward desolation but carrying hope.</p>I can't compose a happy poem to speak<br>Of the joy a woman obtains in accepting a<br>Righted wrong committed against her<br>Or the way her melting heart feels<br>When receiving the long awaited<br>Overdue apology after bitterness has mollified it.<I></p><p>On the heels of her first book <I>Far From Adequate Recompense</I> author K.M. Miller offers another collection of thought-provoking poems about unrequited love the reality of growing old and social injustice.</P><p><I>A Stepping-Off Place: Healing Prose</I> is a haunting observation into Miller's beleaguered thoughts and a tribute to the healing power of the written word. Meaningful and clever Miller's poems share both the process of mending her soul and the wisdom she's gathered along the way.</P>