Clocks and Water Drops

Clocks and Water Drops is the first full-length collection of poetry by Marlene Hitt the first Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga a former Director at the Bolton Hall Museum a local historian poet and community activist. The book of reflections about her life family and neighborhood changing through the decades includes 73 poems in sections dedicated to: Children Marriages Portraits Neighbors Seasons Small Things Passages and Farewells. The title captures the poet's fascination with the flow of time as relentless and powerful as drops of water that can shape rocks and move mountains. Poet Jack Cooper praises Hitt's astute and thoughtful voice while Kath Abela Wilson admires her confident and consistent phrasing and exacting vision.