When trouble in mind starts
to show up and gains traction,
turn us and we shall be turned.
From the voice that cries out:
copy that: it relates to behavior,
including risk, I mean, trust, no,
risk: travelling back into childhood,
distorted memory, or not, who of us
could disengage from our own
Book of Turba? And how
troubling if, as kids, it was never
read to us at bedtime.
Originally from Michigan, Carol Durak lived in various parts of the country before settling in Maine, where, aside from writing, she made a living in book conservation, restoration, and fine binding. In 2019, she left the East Coast and now lives in northern New Mexico.