Dandelions: A Poem

“Dandelions (2019)” will be a delight for anyone interested in the simple joys of childhood. Charlie Taylor is a little boy who believes adventure will always be found around the next corner. He inadvertently discovers one of Nature’s secrets in the field where he normally plays with his friends, and hurries home to share this new knowledge with his mother.

Told in vivid modern stanzas, “Dandelions” is a gently unfolding tale of the innocence of childhood and the wonder of Nature. Setting this story in rural Spring, TX, where Johnston grew up, allowed her to incorporate her own childhood experiences to create a lovely, magical backdrop for this long poem.

Marie K Johnston (aka Kristen M McCurry) is a novelist, poet, visual artist and website creator. You can learn more about her life and art at www.MarieKJohnston.com. She is a 41 year old married mother of one living in a little arty town just northwest of Houston, TX. She was educated at The University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University, wrote for Walmart.com and Rice University’s Web and Print Division, and taught high school English for ten years before she married.

This is her first book of poetry. She is also the author of “Mental (2018),” a novel about overcoming a difficult childhood, and “Leaves Subsiding (2010),” written in magic realism and published under pen name, M. Yoshida McCurry.