Catbird

This beautiful collection illuminates the poet's journey from girlhood to widowhood. Still Papa somehow you conveyed to me/quiet is where you go to get soul things out she writes in Tough Guy a childhood memory poem. In Catbird the title poem of the book humor interrupts grieving...I loved her once/when I saw her lipstick hidden under the pillow./Like Marlene Dietrich in Dishonored/applying lipstick before the firing squad /no pale mouth would greet eternity./Barbara Alfaro's poems have appeared in various journals including The Blue Mountain Review Variant Literature and Poet Lore.