"Molasses Smothered Lemon Slices" is a collection of 189 poems, about half of which have been published in journals and magazines in Canada, USA, UK, and Australia. Forty years of writing in a variety of styles and with vast array of themes is represented. Free verse, short, experimental, rhyming, metered, shape, narrative, formal, traditional, lyrical, cleave, and combinations of those are found here. The themes range from the tried and true of the human condition to unique vignettes of experience. Some works are simple lyrical statements, some venture into complex scientific, historical,...