Karey Solomon

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=95 BGCOLOR="#CC99CC" TEXT="#080000" background="006265f1ezuady.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>FootHills 2011</B></FONT><B>  </B><B> </B><B>|   </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FootHills 2011"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FootHills 2011"><U>FootHills 2011</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id13.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Books 2011"><U>Books 2011</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id14.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FHP Poets Alphabetically"><U>FHP Poets Alphabetically</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wheeler Hill 2011 Readings"><U>Wheeler Hill 2011 Readings</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Martin Burke"><U>Martin Burke</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ann E. Michael"><U>Ann E. Michael</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paul Hapenny"><U>Paul Hapenny</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Laury A. Egan"><U>Laury A. Egan</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Justin Evans"><U>Justin Evans</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jon Mathewson"><U>Jon Mathewson</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mischelle Anthony"><U>Mischelle Anthony</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Monty Campbell Jr."><U>Monty Campbell Jr.</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dale Hobson"><U>Dale Hobson</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bill Lavender"><U>Bill Lavender</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nancy Couto"><U>Nancy Couto</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dwain Wilder"><U>Dwain Wilder</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gary Lehmann"><U>Gary Lehmann</U></A>   |   <B>Karey Solomon</B>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Carmine Dandrea"><U>Carmine Dandrea</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Vincent Golphin"><U>Vincent Golphin</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Michael Arve"><U>Michael Arve</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wanda Schubmehl"><U>Wanda Schubmehl</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Iris Miller"><U>Iris Miller</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Martha Treichler"><U>Martha Treichler</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tom Jones"><U>Tom Jones</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mary Jackson"><U>Mary Jackson</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kerwick"><U>Kerwick</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Anthologies"><U>Anthologies</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>Ordering By Mail</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact"><U>Contact</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=385 BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Karey Solomon</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Karey Solomon</B></div> <bR> <div> Voices like the </div> <div> sound of water</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0dd2ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="481" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>From the book:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Abundance</B></div> <bR> <div> We found a bone-yard at the water's edge</div> <div> bleached phantom limbs of trees</div> <div> last season's ghosts from last year's inland sea</div> <div> We heard the waves truckling into shore</div> <div> echoes of three seasons back</div> <div> when faith, like mist rising from the lake at dawn</div> <div> could swing the balance from distrust to hope</div> <div> Then we were night-swimmers, muffling laughter</div> <div> in water smelling of picnics and gasoline</div> <div> There's the very place we lay among flat stones</div> <div> and found the heart-shaped smaller ones </div> <div> to skim across the water at sunset </div> <div> water-polished and returned to shore</div> <div> We find them now and skip them out again</div> <div> they disappear when stared-at.</div> <bR> <div> Now sycamores' stark fingers reach </div> <div> in empty-handed resurrection</div> <div> The world spins dizzy, faceted by blue</div> <div> I have no fuel for going on, you said.</div> <div> The winter's been too long</div> <div> My answer stumbles like my feet</div> <div> caught between certainty and hesitation</div> <div> We could use the litter on the shore</div> <div> Chunks for firewood, sticks to prop my steps</div> <div>            We burn.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Karey Solomon grew up in New York City and exchanged the urban life for a rural one as soon as she graduated college.  To get time to write, she's worked at a variety of full and part-time jobs - as many as eight simultaneously - from bartending to editor at a daily newspaper.  She currently works as a free-lance writer for several newspapers and journals.  She also is a designer of lace with more than 20 published design collections and has taught her patterns and techniques internationally.  Her poems and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Voices like the sound of water<FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >is a 36 page hand-stitched chapbook  - $10.00. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Segoe Script" >Voices like the sound of water</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A>     </div> <bR> <div> ON-LINE          <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U> </U></A>                              </div> <bR> <div> From the US      <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Voices like the sound of water"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="11-14"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> From Canada      <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Voices like the sound of water"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="11-14"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries           <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Voices like the sound of water"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="11-14"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>