Rachael Z. Ikins

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Ikins</B></div> <div> <I><B>Renovations</B></I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1d12cc30.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="451" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Rachael's's previous FootHills book:</div> <div> <A HREF="#slide_show_in_the_woods" TITLE="Rachael Z. Ikins"><U><B>Slide-Show in the Woods</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <I>Prologue</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Halfway/Passages</B></div> <bR> <div> Cut my curls,</div> <div> spike the remnants high.</div> <div> Pull off my bra.</div> <div> Let other hair grow.</div> <div> Shove my hands into</div> <div> baggy cargo pockets.</div> <bR> <div> Cultivate a bad-ass saunter,</div> <div> Delicious, dangerous dyke, curious</div> <div> to open your cupboards wide. To wash your shoulders,</div> <div> rinse fragrant water down your laddered spine.</div> <div> To bushel your moon-pale breasts</div> <div> with my elbows' amorous crook.</div> <bR> <div> Midnight,</div> <div> Candlelight.</div> <div> When you recline</div> <div> among your pink pillows,</div> <div> one hand behind your head</div> <div> like a Reubens nude.</div> <bR> <div> Floor creaks.</div> <div> You smile, no doubt.</div> <div> Door hinges squeak.</div> <div> I come out.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> S<I>haron Springs, NY</I></div> <div> <I>2005</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Rachael Z. Ikins grew up in NY `s Fingerlakes region. Her first poem published at age 14.</div> <div> Rachael has won 10 poetry prizes among them first place National League of American Penwomen 2006 and 08. Her chapbooks include “Slide-show in the Woods” (Foothills)  August 08, “Transplanted” (Finishing Line Press.) 2010 and in 2012 Renovation (FootHills.)  She has featured and read at Pine Hollow Arboretum, Delmar, Smith's Tavern Poet Laureate Competitions, Vorheesville, NY, and at Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY. She is a member of the Penwomen CNY Chapter and a long distance member of Every Other Thursday Night Poetry Group, Vorheesville, NY.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d7a8fa0.jpg" border=0 width="168" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Renovations</I></div> <div> <B>is a 28 page hand-sewn chapbook  - $10.00. </B></div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER:</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="Renovations"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="12-14"> <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="Renovations"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="12-14"> <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="Renovations"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="12-14"> <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> <div> <B>******************************************</B></div> <div>  <A NAME="slide_show_in_the_woods"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Slide-Show in the Woods</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1d82cbe0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="446" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Rachael Ikins was born and raised in Central New York's Fingerlakes region. Her love of writing poetry began in eighth grade when an inspired English teacher taught poetry. She made it possible for Rachael to publish her first poem.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> In recent years Rachael has received several fellowships to Colgate's writer's conferences in Hamilton, NY and to the Downtown Writers Center Retreat through the YMCA writing program in Syracuse. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.rachaelikins.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.rachaelikins.com"><U>www.rachaelikins.com</U></A></div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> Book Club</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Thursday nights, when</div> <div> my father went to Rotary club </div> <div> mom and I ate TV dinners.</div> <div> Sometimes Mexican, sometimes frozen pizza. </div> <div> My tin fried chicken  balancing on my knees</div> <div> on a dented old tray. My brother and I</div> <div> in front of television, his small heels</div> <div> pushing his rocker slightly backward</div> <div> to gaze at the screen as he chewed</div> <div> Mrs. Swanson's chicken pot pie.</div> <bR> <div> I never liked mixed peas and carrots.</div> <div> I loved books. I loved TV dinner night specials,</div> <div> The illicit huddle of my mother's shoulders at the kitchen table</div> <div> as she hunched over the body with Hercule Poirot,</div> <div> her ash-tail cigarette lying limp</div> <div> in a lumpy ash tray my brother made for her in art class.</div> <div> Me with my best pal Nancy Drew or wandering with Gandalf. </div> <bR> <div> Dad's rule at our house, “No reading at the table.” Nor</div> <div> elbows on the place mats, no open-mouthed chewing,</div> <div> No conversation. Just Thursday's silent infidelities! </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Slide-Show in the Woods</div> <div> is a 32 page hand-stitched chapbook</div> <div> $8.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE           <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Palatino Linotype" ><A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> From the US or 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="Slide-Show in the Woods"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-26"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <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="Slide-Show in the Woods"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-265"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div>  <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>