"Wonderful fun. Thanks for this sweet snippet of life observed."

"Wonderful--thank you for the great poem."

"Ouch!  Dee, I really like your work--this is so vivid, I can see the steam, smell the foaming heart. Thanks."

"This is so wonderful--and scarry--it's amazing we survived those times. The thing that grabs me so with this poem is the off-handed funny voice so accurately describing the experience of feeling like prey. Being up for grabs, literally. Seldom…"

"Wow-thank you, Kenneth--you said it all."

"Beautiful, gentle and fine--good stuff, Stewart."

"Wow--thanks so much all! You make me feel like dancin'!"

"Wonderful poem, Dee--I so like your work, and am always glad to hear you read--thank you!"

"So beautiful and elegant--thank you."

"All sounds wonderful--I love our grower's market here on Friday nights--starting soon! Thanks, Merimee."

"Great--good poem, wonderful story, and so heartening to hear someone say good things about an Ex. Good for her, good for you, and good for the rest of us too."

"Love this! So fine, so funny and to the point. Love the huge tortilla line--I really liked this when you read it awhile back at Black Market Goods--have thought of it several times since, (sign of a really good poem, it stays with you!) Thanks."

"Wonderful--everything everybody else has said--me too! Love it."

"I love the ordinariness of this, no fireworks or sirens--just the simpleness of days, and of the care in the relationship between mother and daughter, and how it's acknowledged, the empathy of the child for her mother. This is beautiful, subtle…"

"Love "the shameful habit of relief"--wonderful, and frightening, poem."