"Erica's poems reveal messages from her soul to you, that are revealed through her observations of the world that surrounds her, often with humor.These observations are rich descriptions that come from her years as a visual artist. Her poems are paintings. She reveals her emotional life subtly, often mirroring your own. Her poems resonate deeply, one poem leads you to read another and another." Pat Dolan: artist, author of Stalking the Sacred and The Angels Made Me Do It.

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As Swadley says, "As long as there's life, there's poetry."

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