IN THE LAND OF THE WAHOO TREES

When Karen Mireau moved from California to Lexington Kentucky in the mid-1990s she had no idea what might be in store for her or her four-year-old daughter Marina.There were times of profound joy and also times of unbearable tragedy and sadness-but their friends and Bell Court neighbors became the foundation of their determination to keep going.These poems are portraits of some of the people and places they were so fortunate to encounter and a testament to how love and faith in each other can and does change the world.