Love to visit them,
these good folks in Botswana
reading and red tea.

Beautiful insights
What if what I’m running from
is serenity?

After I warmed up
to castles, ale, tunics, myth:
fascinating curse.

Why is she lauded?
awful writing, boring plot
I just don’t get it.

Enjoyed the writing
Took too long to jump start plot
curious vantage

Rich, white male
wonders why his family died
when he ignored them.

Dying breed moseys:
pots, pans, clinking off his mule
fades into forest.

Moody, dark, romance,
literary tribute paid
Dickens would be proud.

First romance I read
Where I actually cared!
Well done, Lee! Well done.

beautiful beach tales
drifting through life’s ocean
shore bound, washed-up kelp