Ask Google, and you’re likely to be told something like: A chapbook is a small, concise collection of literary work, often poetry, essays, or short stories. It’s a format used by small presses to showcase emerging talent or focused themes.

In the case of Load-Bearing Walls, twenty-three of my poems deal with people, places and events that have supported me, for better or worse, through many years.

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Wedge verses under the door.
Caulk walls with words.
Poetry keeps the spiders out
lets salvation in.

© Linda B. Myers

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I couldn’t write about sex until after my mother died. And the older I got, the more barriers broke away. I learned to talk directly about loss, love, pettiness, memory, dark passages in life. Poetry has an immediacy that I was feeling. I needed to scratch that itch. Besides, it is the ONLY way I can think of to make even less money than social security.

Speaking of social, you’ll find my poetry often shakes a fist at the biggest loss: that of our country. Watch this space for examples to come.

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