*The Editors wish you a Happy Thanksgiving*.
Maybe someday it will be recognized as the time when the Natives of this land
showed tremendous compassion and generosity toward strangers
who would surely have perished without them.

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Quill and Parchment is honored to dedicate our November issue to the
memory of poet Karen O’Leary

"Virginia creepers, English ivies, vines of every climate"
On Earth as It Is
by Karla Linn Merrifield


"No Thanksgiving hymn rises is our throats"
In the Mood
by Karla Linn Merrifield


"She won’t even rain"
Uneasy the winter,
by Karla Linn Merrifield




"Hunters will soon bruise this calm"
Autumn in the Wings
by D. R. James


"Purple asters line the path"
Afternoon Delight
by Karen O'Leary


"Wrapped in November’s benevolence"
November on Parade!
by Michael Escoubas


"Little brown birds, no words but full of song"
Mother Always Chose Joy
by Judy Lorenzen


"Under a grieving sky"
requiem
by Marcel Aime Duclos




"The scent of lilac spills onto the table"
Writing Our Way into Spring
by Mary Jo Balistreri

"When love was young and new"
The Song I Wrote for You
by Sharmagne Leland-St.John


"She brushed away life’s shadows"
Things They Used to Do
by Michael Escoubas


"We knelt to admire waterlilies before you took me in your arms"
Lilacs 
by Wilda Morris


"Spring and summer came and went"
Common Ground
by Vaughn Neeld


"Today we trade a gift of greenery"
Autumn Lilacs
by Paulette Demers Turco


Poetry Prompt for December 2024


"Water cold and dark"
Ekphrasis
by Sharmagne Leland-St.John


"Sea breezes ripple across the bay"
The Spirit of a Place
by Michael Escoubas


"Best of all, the gondolier singing as he sculled under foot bridges"
On the Water
by Wilda Morris


Ekphrastic Prompt for December 2024


Parental Forest
by Chad Norman
Reviewed by Michael Escoubas


Remembering the Future
by Janice Dempsey
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater


Flyover Country
by B.J. Buckley
Reviewed by Michael Escoubas


What We Do Well
by Geoffrey Heptonstall
Reviewed by Michael Escoubas



Publisher: Kindle Direct Publishing
Distilled Lives: Volume 7
Biennial Anthology of the Illinois State Poetry Society
Co-editors: Lennart Lundh and Marjorie Rissman


Publisher: Alan Harris
Noon Out of Nowhere: Complete Poems and Aphorisms
by Alan Harris



My family can't get enough of this bread, toasted with butter and honey
Pumpkin Seed, Sunflower Seed, Pine Nut Bread
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St.John



OLDIES but GOODIES

Try this multicultural turkey dish this Thanksgiving
Turkey Dopiaza
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St.John


The perfect winter holiday side dish, main course or stuffing 
Spicy Pomegranate Basmati Rice
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John



Eleanore MacDonald

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