GINIA by J. B. Hogan

GINIA by J. B. Hogan

Was there no one there,

Ginia, no one to assure you

of your skill, your talent,

to talk you off the slippery bank?

Erudite and circumspect,

literate and literary, mannered

to a fault, absurdly feared in

playwright’s odd homage

to lighthouse and fretting Mrs. D.

Absurd fear when you were

only insecure, uncertain,

nothing more.

Just a little support, a

little encouragement, perhaps,

to stem the dark tide, the

deep waters washing over

your lonely, sad soul.

J. B. Hogan has published over 300 stories and poems and eleven books, including Bar Harbor, Bounty Riders, Time and Time Again, Mexican Skies, Tin Hollow, Living Behind Time, Losing Cotton, The Rubicon, Fallen, The Apostate, and Angels in the Ozarks (nonfiction, local professional baseball history). He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.