Front Porch Review
A literary magazine for the young at heart and mind

Dull the day,
gunmetal gray and careless with rain;
a wet hum and click from
the glistening windows.
My thoughts are dredged from a far place,
deep memory unbidden.
All the days unnamed, uncelebrated, knotted somehow to you.
You, the dreamer,
me, the misunderstood, reaching
for a new language:
babble, babble, babble.
We, a soaring collapsible pair, not always
with enough thanks in us.
And then silences with forgiveness at their end.

By Pamela Blake

Pamela Blake was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area. Taken with the theater at an early age, she played her first role, Alice, in Alice In Wonderland, at Mills College when she was eleven. She left college at the beginning of her junior year to join Actor's Workshop, a professional repertory company in San Francisco.  Her life as an actress would eventually lead to writing and being a part of the production of five of her plays.

Pamela considers her life to have been a bit of a dog's breakfast, always walking a line between the normal and the sublime, often not getting it quite right. She is nonetheless grateful for all creative gifts, wonderful friends, her children who still delight even as they slog through their mid-life crises, and for the time to gaze at Life until it begins, slowly to reveal itself. Her e-mail address: