Coming soon is Laurie’s collection of poetry and paintings. Each poem is paired with a painting. Together the pairs become a moving sequence bringing to life loving during peacetimes and transitioning to loving persisting during wartimes.  When love endures in the aftermath of war, the long healing process becomes less and less daunting because…

“Love, Colors, And Shapes” By Laurie Hollman The Brussels Review    Read More   Love Transformed love worn by war doesn’t end, but dwells bevels round in fragile forms transforms love in tangled dreams of what once was— in tangled dreams of rolling hills greens awash with lavenders              …

White Echoing   White wet snow lovingly tempts my eye outside my window to white footsteps sloping up white fur following white taps looming in flakes echoing warmly in cold air.   Dry greens lovingly lift my eye on an even horizon above the opaque hill to stately trees echoing warmly in cold air.

A cold day. A shared pocket. Must we meet again? Ciao  

“I’d like to tell you something I’ve never told anyone,” says a trembling young woman. “It’s been locked up inside me for so long like a hinge in my gut that won’t swivel. It’s a moveable joint linking thoughts, but it’s clamped shut and I want to connect whatever has been frozen in my belly…