MUD ON HER BOOTS - Tecno-Libro

Reading Corene Johnston s poetry is a bit like visiting her wooden clapboard home nestled in a hollow of the Pennsylvania mountains. With open arms she welcomes you to come inside, pull up a chair at the sturdy yellow farm table for some freshly baked bread hot from the oven, and to savor moments together pondering the imponderable. Corene s poetry is intimate and stark. Her poems take us from joy to melancholy and back again a tribute to the human experience in keenly observed detail and sometimes muddy facets. Corene s words reflect her sojourn of celebrating, sauntering and slogging through her 67 years. They reveal her passion as a writer, artist, nurse and cancer warrior. . Pause and allow the seconds to brush softly against your face while cradling each poem of which she has painstakingly given birth. House rules dictate: Relax, kick back, put your feet up on the coffee table and exhale. Doing so, is the next best thing to being with