<p>2021 Birdy Poetry Prize Finalist:</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>More than a love story told in verse </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lilac and Sawdust</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> examines two lives whose paths come together finally giving space for acceptance that wasn't always there still isn't certainly taken for granted. Growing up falling in love aging as gracefully as the years allow . . . Jeff and Jerry are your neighbors your friends your family.&nbsp;</span></p>