Mary Ricketson's Shade and Shelter I cherish for its naturalness, the words as wind, sometimes wild, sometimes caring, always solid as a stone-wall at sunset, real as the dirt beneath the feet, ephemeral as one monarch butterfly. Shelby Stephenson, Poet Laureate of North Carolina, 2015-2018 author of Elegies for Small Game, Press 53, Paul's Hill: Homage to Whitman, Sir Walter Press, and winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Award. In Mary Ricketson's...
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