Dear Readers,
Happy Halloween! I hope you are enjoying your autumn!
I would like to take this time to thank all of the people who have supported my books this year. Thank you so very much. I’m very grateful! Especially Autumn Poetry: A Collection for the Season - I’m hoping it got you into an autumn frame of mind!
I’m taking a little time off now, but will be back soon - so please check back! I love having company!
❤️Jan
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dorothea-tanning
https://blackpoppyreview.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-dark-by-jan-darrow.html
My story The Dark has been published on Black Poppy Review today! Click the link above to check out the story and this wonderful publication!
You know I love classic movies.
I have a movie recommendation tonight for this spooky month of October. Released in 1944 and one of the highest grossing films of that year - The Uninvited. (A ghost story.) It stars Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, and Gail Russell. It is absolutely one of my favorite classic films! You can catch it on TCM. Yes! I recommend!
Irish Hollow Cemetery - A Resting Place for Lives Well Lived.
Except for the maintenance of a few family stones, this cemetery has largely been forgotten. Located near Rockland, MI (a once booming mining town located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula) - many headstones are buried under years of overgrown brush and moss. But the headstones are absolutely beautiful - and the people who once lived there were prosperous.
Click the link for more!
https://gypsyroadgallery.com/2016/10/16/irish-hollow-cemetery/
At dusk
the house is still
except the sound
of silverware on plates
and ice
in tall green glasses.
Outside the wind
lifts branches
of the trees
that line the drive.
A two lane road
drifts past alone.
There is no path
to wander back
into the past she realizes
as she cuts
the apple pie.
From Autumn Poetry: A Collection for the Season
Available on Amazon
https://blackpoppyreview.blogspot.com/2023/10/three-years-by-jan-darrow.html
