Signs of Marriage

<p class=ql-align-justify>My favorite is <em>Turntable Park</em> which may be seen as a contest with nature: wind rain waves with focus on the <em>finish line</em>. The vivid imagery draws the reader into this exploit in this nicely woven poem with no loose threads-a fresh original creation.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-Harris Gardener</strong> poet and poetry editor<em> Ibbetson Street Press</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>As far as (Schwartz's) poems go they are lovely and gut-wrenching in a good way!</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-Jessica Frelow</strong> writer and editor <em>Discretionary Love</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>I can't seem to get away from the truth of <em>Contemplating Humanity While Swimming.</em> It's such a startling piece of writing the theme of it. We all have the capacity I think to do what we think we'd never do what others would swear we'd never do. This poem captures that the heinousness of possibility in being human.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-Chila Woychik</strong> writer and editor <em>Eastern Iowa Review</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Of <em>Stones</em>: Of course it's a love poem but who would ever think of flirting and seducing a woman with stones? The journeys along the path to love and matrimony-from a joke to the heavy emotional boulders hauled by a come-along to the small hand-held face up crystal of a loving face at the end-extraordinary.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>-Robert Ober</strong> poet</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>