Patricia Ann Mayorga

Lovers’ Progress

Arts & Literature

“John Zedolik delicately places his words on a sensuous palette where the scent of love is written within lines of fragrant flowers, nature, and ordinary life. We are led through waters of the seascape, through gardens, and everyday moments between two lovers as they move through love and life as one. ‘Not Enough Credit’ reflects the lens of love: ‘you hold on to what matters / the pearl in the tide / and that must be me.’”

Mother Mourning

Arts & Literature

“John Zedolik pierces the core of an agony ladened with grief where the dark edges of loss strand through each poem. We are taken on a journey where the spirit of his mother lives in each breath of memory. Resolution may culminate in some sense of moving forward; yet it is clear the future will always appear incomplete as in The Circle; acceptance may seem to have been met, yet it never quite reaches a closure.”