PROVOCATIVE THOUGHTS: 
The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
Susan Budig
Susan Budig writes a column for regional magazine, This Is Living Naturally. She writes as a music journalist, feature writer and news journalist for local newspapers in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Susan's poetry appears in Writers Digest, Music & Vision, Classical Poets, Thirteen Blackbirds Poetry blog, Art & Earth arts blog, and Friends of the Arts newsletter.
She maintains a poetry blog at susanbudigs-poetry.blogspot.com
Articles by Susan Budig
Susan Budig's short poem about Venice's 'Red Priest', composed in the form of a classical rondeau