Lean on the Wind

<p>Author Patricia Salter was born into a lively and creative family. The second of five children her father was a professor and her mother a published poet. Although she was born in Philadelphia she has lived the greater part of her life in Madison Wisconsin. Hers was a peripatetic family giving her and her siblings the opportunity to live East West and South while growing up. <b>Lean on the Wind</b> reflects the passions and challenges of her younger years while also demonstrating her love of music art gardening and nature. Although most of the poems were written nearly a half century ago these words like a just-discovered fine wine have mellowed with the years and come to us as smooth evocative and satisfying. </p><b>Poet's Apology</b>How else can I say what the sky is tonightWhere is there a word still unsung?There's a ribbon of gold-alas!-this is triteBut still 'tis a ribbon-far flungFrom the reaches of heaven to the edge of the earthA ribbon of gold is unfurledAh! I mourn that there is in my brain such a dearthOf words to describe my loved world.But what can I do that's not long since been doneBy poets more skillful than I-They wrote of this beauty 'ere I had begunYet I am here now. I must try!