About  SJ Martin, born in Eastern Ohio along the Ohio River,  
       writes about love, loss, longing--and the hope for renewal.                                                       

O lovely woman

Gently lowered to the ground                                                                                        
is best measured by your living
though far away and long ago
one waits and thinks
this cannot be, not you
no matter all who have
come and gone

O gentle nature, 
rising soul, fixed star
where is thy heading now?

Some say we will follow you
for others, when life is done
each is through

Let the good we find
be immortal guarantee 
best measured by your living

(for Marlene Sebastian 1942-2009)