Poet Showcase; Glenise Lee

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="135a11c3.gif"> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Glenise Lee</U></B></div> <div> <B>Glenise writes poetry and science fiction.</B></div> <div> <B> </B><A HREF="mailto:lee10@host365.com " TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:lee10@host365.com "><U><B>E-mail</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>Artrageous Women</B> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#33CC00" FACE="Arial" >   |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Artrageous Women"><U>home</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Poet Showcase; Glenise Lee</div> <div> <I><B><U>THAT'S</U></B></I><B><U> COUNTRY</U></B></div> <div> The steel guitar's moan</div> <div> told of winds across an empty land,</div> <div> and loneliness;</div> <div> its wail, the tail-end</div> <div> of a train's mournful whistle</div> <div> into the night.</div> <div> Loss, bled from every sobbing note.</div> <div> The drumming began,</div> <div> the beat like rain,</div> <div> hard, on a sandstone desert.</div> <div> Sliding between images of pain,</div> <div> a bass guitar snatched the mood</div> <div> with a key change,</div> <div> intensifying grief,</div> <div> tightening bonds of anguish,</div> <div> wringing each last drop of heartbreak</div> <div> from the music.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>