Barbara Chaapel:
CLASS OF 1957
Riverside High SchoolClass of 1957
Painesville, OH
Barbara's Story
Barbary's schools include Riverside High School.
Music Barbary likes includes Chet Baker, Leonard Cohen, Phoebe Snow.
Favorite writers: George Mackay Brown, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy
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This is my story:
I am married to Bill. I have two children, Michael and Marti. Bill and I left Cleveland aboard our 30 ft. sailboat,
SNOW GOOSE in 1977 and never returned. After sailing the Caribbean for 7 1/2 years we returned to land, my birthplace, WV. At age 35 I started writing for sailing magazines and journaled our sailing experience in Journey Of The Snow Goose. Now I write poetry.
Fragments taken from books of Barbary Chaapel:
We're on our way to Clarencetown with more of those
giant wav...Expand for more
es pushing us. It was tricky rolling in on a course
through the reef entrance.
-Ship's log:Journey of the Snow Goose
The child becomes her own memory,
Camera obscura.
She, too, blooms but never beyond
The edge of that field,
- The Snowman's Child: No Name Harbor, Poetry of Barbary Chaapel
Fresh from rapture,
Clothed in dew,
His mouths quivers,
Your teeth gleam.
-Lunar Spell: Estuary, Poetry of Barbary Chaapel
The forest lies on the ground,
Barbed wire leans on a lonely skyline,
Music rolling the rails.
-Janis: Bog Woman, A Mythic Journey, Poetry of Barbary Chaapel
To catch and release that rainbow -
A flambeau fairy bride with eternal spin of memory,
All those mouths that never kissed me.
-All Those Mouths That Never Kissed Me: Postlude, Poetry of Barbary Chaapel
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