"We are the mirrors that reflect"

"The kind of adults our children will be "

"We are the finished models"

"The patterns of life before them to see."

from "We Are the Patterns"

A lifelong writer, Edith R. Malbon was invited to join a Boston group of poets before she turned twenty years old. This would prove to be a literary highlight in her life, as she soon dedicated herself to family life with her husband and four children.

However, Edith never stopped writing. Even as she tended to life in her small, rural Massachusetts town, she channeled her deepest thoughts and...