About Time

<p><strong>These poems are borne of the joy and pain of a life lived to the fullest. </strong></p><p><br></p><p>Diane Mintz writes of hunger and need loving and living and overcoming. She celebrates intimate moments </p><p>the rough patches the smallest revelations of unsung beauty. These poems abound with tender and com-</p><p>passionate images of the human condition.</p><p>_________________</p><p><em>I want to write a poem as elegant as old lace</em></p><p><em>as simple and airy as a child's rhyme</em></p><p><em>as soft and loved as a stuffed animal</em></p><p><em>as welcoming as an old slipper as easy to slip on.</em></p><p><em>A poem in which I can open my most tender secrets</em></p><p><em>to the trusted and compassionate reader who takes in</em></p><p><em>the words knowingly securing them inside her secret place</em></p><p><em>where she will turn to them often for solace.... </em></p><p>_________________</p>