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Retrospect
I rarely have reason
to remember you as a monsoon of a man
a Sunday morning pancake maker
a sugar daddy to our daughters
But all too often
when IÕm in that twilight zone
Somewhere between sleep and awake
my body temperature falls
And I feel the phantom current of air
breeze over my chilled body
As you faithfully covered me
with a finely spun silk comforter
Ellaraine Lockiewrites poetry, nonfiction books, magazine articles/columns and children's stories. She is a well-published and awarded poet who has received seven nominations for Pushcart Prizes in poetry and has three published chapbooks: Midlife Muse, Poetry Forum, Crossing the Center Line, Sweet Annie Press and Coloring Outside the Lines, The Plowman Press. Another, Finishing Lines, will be forthcoming in 2004 from Snark Publishing. Ellaraine also teaches college and community poetry workshops. Her nonfiction books are: All Because of a Button: Folklore, Fact and Fiction, St. Johann Press; The Gourmet Paper Maker, Creative Publishing, and The Low Lactose Kitchen Companion and Cookbook forthcoming in 2005. (September, 2004)
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