COLLAGE OF FRIENDSHIP
Time flows and melts — Poetry by Lois Perch Villemaire
COLLAGE OF FRIENDSHIP
By Lois Perch Villemaire Side by side we tear paper expose rough edges explore words and colors combine for special meaning surrounded by piles of magazines and brushes letters and numbers a recipe for the real or surreal. Stripes, patterns, photos glue sticks and fancy scissors time flows and melts then hardens into memories like dribbles of wax down a candlestick. My work mirrors love of books a woman traveling in an overstuffed armchair so comfortable at home lost in the words of Tyler and Strout surrounded by shelves of selections. Glancing at your work an awaited journey appears swatches of maps and arrows foretell your destination to far-off places, new adventures, return trips to exotic lands, perhaps never to return to this table.
Lois Perch Villemaire of Annapolis, Maryland, is the author of My Eight Greats, a family history in poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, Spillwords Press, Third Street Review, and TheRavensPerch. Her chapbook, Eyes at the Edge of the Woods (Bottlecap Press), was published in June 2024. Villemaire is a contributing writer at AARP-The Ethel. She researches family history, volunteers at the library, and propagates African violets.
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Always happy to applaud another Lois
So proud of my cousin Lois again for another beautiful literary work. Her poetry is so descriptive, you see it in your mind's eye, with all the details and the flow of the subject, it makes you think, it makes you wonder and smile. Congratulations!